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Re: No fsck in battery mode



On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:18:28AM -0500, Tony Godshall wrote:
> > > Thanks for bringing this up.  I wasn't aware of /fastboot.
> > > Looks like a good solution.  Well, except that / has to be
> > > mounted first.
> > 
> > ummm, / is gonna be mounted, otherwise how is the OS reading /etc or 
> > attempting to run fsck?
> 
> Well, I think it comes up read-only, then is fsck'd, then is
> remounted rw.  Touching /fastboot would fail if the drive is
> mounted ro.  I guess you could touch fastboot before you go
> on the road, but I'd rather have a more automated method.

Well, the tip is to make / small, and not worry that it occasionally has to
get checked on boot. if it's ~100-150M, it'll be all over in seconds (like,
3 or 4)

Obviously, I'm implying that the script to touch /fastboot would run just
after the remount rw.

I forgot to mention, it could delete the file too, if it finds you're
running on AC.

Mike.
-- 
Mike Beattie <mike@ethernal.org>                      ZL4TXK, IRLP Node 6184

        The first 90% of the code in a project takes 90% of the time.
         The next 10% of the code will take another 90% of the time.
                                                 -- J. S. Labuschagne



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