Yes you are correct of course.  I'm just picking up the pieces from the
previous developers.  The next system I roll out will incorporate your
suggestion.


On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:41 PM, Charles Steinkuehler <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 5/16/2014 7:05 PM, John Syn wrote:
> >
> >> Thank you, damn should've found that myself.
> >>
> >> The only thing I am worried about is rebooting into fsck mode and then
> having
> >> it make changes and making the system unbootable.  Not much I can do
> about
> >> that I suppose as I only have Ethernet access via a cell modem...
> > In that case, you should use a read only filesystem that you donšt have
> to
> > check and another which is writeable. You can unmount the writeable
> > partition and run fsck. Either use two storage devices (eMMC and SDCard)
> or
> > use two partitions on one device.
>
> And if you really need to fix this remotely without risk of the system
> not coming back, you can craft a chroot rescue environment in a ram
> based file-system, pivot-root to that, and fsck the unmounted flash
> drive.  You could even pivot-root back to the fixed filesystem without
> rebooting unless you need to update the kernel.
>
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