Re: fsck automatically on boot

[Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>]

On Thu, 1 Nov 2001, Franklin DeMatto wrote:

> I sometimes get messages on boot up to run fsck.

What, precisely, do the messages say? If they instruct you to run fsck
manually, do so at the prompt.

> How do I configure the system to do this automatically on boot, before
> mounting it in read/write?

During boot, OpenBSD normally does this. If the system previously shut
down properly, it should say something like "filesystem marked clean,
fsck skipped". If the system wasn't shut down cleanly, then it won't
be marked clean, and fsck should automatically be run (possibly
stopping if it hits a severe error, thus prompting you to run it
manually).

> Please cc all responses to me.
>
> (BTW, is there a simple command to display how much memory is in use,
> available, etc.?)

vmstat(8) might be what you want.
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| Dave Taira <bodhi@hagakure.org>                2001.11.01/00:50:09 PST |
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