In article <001a01c33105$7a7a2a90$444586c3@neumann>,
Panagiotis G. Labropoulos <plabrop@phys.uoa.gr> wrote:

mmm, greek construction :-) I wonder when panepistimiou will collapse
and fall onto the subway tunnels.

>That is what I did first, but the system halts for unknown reason after the
>message:
>***** FILE SYSTEM MARKED CLEAN *****
>
>***** FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED *****
>No further lines are diplayed.

Halts, you mean crashes? You should never have to use -f, really.

christos

>
>Yesterday, a construction group damaged some power cables and the optical
>fibers to the sciences Faculty. Repairing this damaged requires cutting of
>electrical power for long, unscheduled interval during day. The NetBSD
>server has a UPS attached to it which can provide power for aprox. 30
>minutes. The UPS does not communicate with the server so it cannot shutdown
>properly. The power supply of the system has a two position switch so that
>the system boots up when power is restored. Because I cannot always run fsck
>manually, I would like to force fsck on all files systems at boot time,
>until restoration of the facilities is through.
>Best Regards,
>PGL
> 
>hi,
>
>On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 02:15:31PM +0300, Panagiotis G. Labropoulos wrote:
>>
>> How do I force checking of file systems on boot time when they are
>> marked clean?
>
>edit your /etc/rc.d/fsck and add -f flag to fsck, "fsck -p" -> "fsck -fp"
>
>from fsck(8):
>
> -f      Force checking of file systems, even when they are marked clean
>         (for file systems that support this), or when they are mounted
>         read-write.
>
>i am not sure i understand why would you want to do this, though.
>
>
>regards,
>
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