On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 10:39:51PM -0400, Chris BeHanna wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2001, Tadayuki OKADA wrote:
[...]
> > I've heard that it always keeps consistency.
> > So you can skip fsck after the crash.
> > #I don't know the detail, so please someone correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> I've had a number of crashes recently while trying to get my new
> Thunderbird box up and running with the disk from my old box. I have
> softupdates enabled on two partitions, yet they still fsck on the way
> back up after a crash (and, at 18GB each, it takes awhile). Next time
> I play games, I'm mounting them read-only first!
Boot single-user, mount -f.
You will still want to fsck, some day.
I have a server with two .5TB partitions. I make their fstab entries "noauto"
so if the machine does crash, it comes back up, and I can mount -f or fsck at
my discretion.
-danny
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