On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 09:26:55AM +0000, Peter Miller wrote:

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> On 11/18/10 06:58, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
> >On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 09:48:57PM +0000, Peter Miller wrote:
> >
> >>I upgraded to a more current snapshot the other day and after fsck
> >>ran on the root partition, it asked if i wanted to fsck the other
> >>partitions. I typed "no", but it ran anyways, causing a failure and
> >>therefore aborting the install because some disks were missing.
> >>
> >>I have 2 usb hard drives in my /etc/fstab. I don't have these drives
> >>with me all the time, and had them unplugged during my upgrade (so i
> >>didn't inadvertently install to one of them).
> >>
> >>I tried to upgrade a couple times, but i have to comment out my usb
> >>drives before i can successfully run the upgrade. The upgrade asked
> >>me whether or not I wanted to fsck the other partitions, so i figure
> >>it should at least obey my answer.
> >>
> >>OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #627: Fri Nov 12 23:00:53 MST 2010
> >>     deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
> >>
> >>relevant section of fstab i commented out in order to upgrade
> >>
> >># my drives
> >>5dbd5372ca23d268.d /mnt/Dane ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 0 0
> >>93b2b19e02be3f39.d /mnt/Cook ffs rw,nodev,nosuid,softdep 0 0
> >>
> >>--
> >>Later
> >>Peter
> >
> >The installer only asks if you want to do a *forced* fsck ora
> >non-forced. The fsck is always done for all devices in fstab. The only
> >differences is whether -y is used or not.

Make that -f

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> >
> >	-Otto
> That makes sense now, thanks. The wording just leaves some room for
> interpretation. I really thought it was a choice to fsck or not,
> instead of a choice to run fsck with the -y option or not.
> 
> Peter,
> I looked into 'noauto' but i prefer to have my drives auto-mounted
> the 95% of the time i'm using my computer vs the few times i do an
> upgrade. I'll just comment them out.. easy enough.
> 
> --
> Later
> Peter