On Sat, 2005-03-26 at 19:09 +0000, Stephen Furlong wrote:
Hi there,
Im running a suse fileserver with about 10 harddisks installed, and am running it monitorless and kboard/mouse'less.
Im not protected by any type of UPS, although I am thinking of installing one soon.
My question is this;
When we have a power outage, obviously the server just turns off immediately. On power restoration, it automatically boots up. But when suse is running the boot sequence, it notes that one or more volumes have not been cleanly unmounted (obviously) and that it needs to check. Occasionally during this it fails for a unknown reason and dumps me to run a manual fsck. This is more than annoying as the server is located in a locked storage space, and plugging up a monitor and keyboard/mouse is more than a inconvenience.
So basically is there any way of disabling this check on boot, and just writing an error message in a system log? Or even just disable it?
It must be possible as another Distro (mandrake springs to mind) has a different approach to this kind of situation in that it prompts you to press a key to run the checks if it sees that volumes have been uncleanly mounted.
Yes it might be possible but you will also end up with a corrupted filesystem and make the "fileserver" useless. I would guess that this "locked closet" also has no air conditioning as well so that at some point in time you could use it to cook your lunch/dinner as well. Why not just spend the $30-50US and buy a UPS for momentary outages? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge