On Thu, 28 Oct 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote:

> 
> On 27-Oct-99 Remy Nonnenmacher wrote:
> >  In followup of the FFS thread, I would like to know if there are some
> >  recommendations for running unattended machines. For exemple, avoiding
> >  the 'run fsck manually' (for exemple, when co-locating a machine far
> >  away where it is not possible to get a console login).
> 
> Well.. (and I know lots of people would say this is stupid) If you are going to
> run it in isolation, then you can change the inital fsck so that it just
> assumes yes for all user input in an error condition..

It isn't really clear what else you would do, though.  Most people don't
know enough to fix things that fsck can't.  If it hoses the box, restore
from backup.  It is what they are for!  

David scheidt



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