5.1-R-p11 unable to "sync disks" when shutting down

[Doug Barton]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, David Gilbert wrote:

> I'd like to see:
>
> crash -> boot -> defer for bgfsck (but mark disk as having tried)
>       -> multiuser -> bgfsck -> crash -> boot -> fsck in foreground
>       -> multiuser
>
> ... but I believe this would require fsck support unless the startup
> scripts were writing to the filesystem to indicate no bgfsck.

What you propose would also be really complicated for other reasons
related to the way rcNG works. I would suggest that your best bet is
always:

crash -> boot single user -> fsck -y -> multiuser

That's pretty much guaranteed to work.

HTH,

Doug

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