Hi,
I made a slight change to the /etc/rc file that looks for the file
/etc/force-fsck and if found, forces a check. The patch follows:
--- /etc/rc.old Sat Jun 27 13:33:51 2009
+++ /etc/rc Sat Jun 27 14:19:06 2009
@@ -202,7 +202,11 @@
echo "Fast boot: skipping disk checks."
elif [ X"$1" = X"autoboot" ]; then
echo "Automatic boot in progress: starting file system checks."
- fsck -p
+ if [ -f /etc/force-fsck ]; then
+ fsck -pf
+ else
+ fsck -p
+ fi
case $? in
0)
;;
@@ -240,6 +244,7 @@
mount -a -t nonfs,vnd
mount -uw / # root on nfs requires this, others aren't hurt
rm -f /fastboot # XXX (root now writeable)
+rm -f /etc/force-fsck # same as above
random_seed
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 8:11 AM, Joachim
Schipper<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 08:37:44PM +0100, Mikolaj Kucharski wrote:
>> Is it possible?
>
> There is no /forcefsck mechanism for OpenBSD as there is for Linux, but
> fsck does take a -f option to force fsck, even if the filesystem is
> thought to be clean.
>
> You can boot to single user mode ("boot -s") to do this. There are some
> complications if this is not possible (e.g. a server in a dedicated
> datacenter); are you in that situation? In other words, what are you
> *really* trying to do?
>
> Joachim
>
>
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