Re: Recover after a sudden system halt

[Kevin Chadwick]

-------- Original Message --------

> I'm intrigued more about /usr/local/sync.. what is it exactly ?

>From the mount man page

sync       Regular data I/O to the file system should be done
                        synchronously.  By default, only metadata is
                        read/written synchronously.

If you add sync to the flags for /usr/local in /etc/fstab and possibly /var for
the pkg database then fsck is far less likely to run into any issues on those
mounted filesystems but it will have a significant performance impact on writes.

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All the best,
             Kevin Chadwick