On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 07:55:28PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote: > At 06:43 PM 6/27/2003, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >You're supposed to boot into single-user mode to repair the > >filesystems before attempting to bring it up to multiuser state. > > Ah... but you're not there at the exact moment when the power > comes back on. (Maybe it was just a flicker and there was no > UPS, or maybe the power company -- like ours -- is so slow to > fix outages that the UPS battery was fully drained.) > > What's more, even if you CAN boot into single user mode and run > fsck, it can be frustrating. Sometimes a partition takes two > or three passes to clean up. Sometimes fsck randomly refuses > to work on one. It's a mess. > > Ideally, the system would handle the logistics. It's not as if > powering down without shutting down is that rare of an > occurrence. (It eats holes in any system, and is responsible for > gradual "bit rot" in both Windows machines and BSD machines.) > > --Brett
Please read the documentation; there are rc.conf options for handling unattended installations. Kris
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