Problem with fsck : continued

[manish jain]

  Hi,
   
  Thanks for the support so far. FreeBSD is working beautifully, both on the server as well as client workstations. Except for fsck. I am writing from India, where the electrical power scenario makes up for any possible lack of frustration.
   
  My server faces unscheduled power cuts and consequent improper shutdown 2-3 times every day. This is what I have placed in my server's rc.conf :
   
  fsck_y_enable="YES"
  background_fsck="NO"
   
  Most of the time when the system comes up on its own without first being subjected to single-user mode operations, half the services (including squid, webmin, vsftpd, svscan and - most significantly - getty for the local console) fail to start up, although fsck does run automatically in the foreground - with the y[es] argument enabled - on all partitions listed in fstab on system restart (i.e. restoration of electricity). The only solution I know is to first go into single-user mode and run fsck on the commandline for all partitions, after which the server comes up quite nicely.
   
  This would be okay if I could leave a console attached to the server, in which case I could run fsck interactively in single-user mode and get the system up again. For daily operations however, my organisation would much prefer to have the server working without a console attached.
   
  So now the question is if I can get FreeBSD 6.0 to run fsck automatically on restart in such a manner that all services come up consistently. I am even willing to have fsck run in the foreground upon EACH restart, irrespective of whether the previous shutdown was proper or improper. How do I do this ?
   
  Thanks for any help. Attached at the bottom is the previous communication.
   
  Manish Jain
  goodredhat at yahoo.com
   
   
   
   
   
  On Thursday 26 January 2006 19:39, manish jain wrote:
> I recently persuaded my organisation to shift our main
> server from Linux to FreeBSD 6.0. We are now facing a
> problem with fsck. After improper shutdown, we need
> fsck to run automatically and non-interactively in the
> foreground upon restart. Enabling background fsck lets
> the system come up but fails to properly start a few
> network services. 
  When you say you enabled it, do you simply mean you did nothing at all, or did you add an extra fsck -B somewhere.
  Background fsck is enabled by default, and it runs 60 seconds after all other initialization. Partitions can only be deferred for background checking if they support it, and are in a mountable state.  These partitions are simply skipped in the pre-mount fsck check. 
  All it does is recover lost space. It shouldn't have any impact other than a general slowdown.
   

		
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