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From: dupuy@cs.columbia.edu (Alexander Dupuy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: Preen and SunOS 4.0
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Date: 1 Mar 89 08:10:18 GMT
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Original-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 89 12:17:48 EST
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 174, message 10 of 15

One other problem which I noticed with our Sun-2s running 4.0: if you have
/usr mounted r/w and the pass # is not 1 (we had it as 2, from
suninstall), fsck will run the check as a child.  If there is repairable
damage on /usr (at this point a mounted filesystem) the child will return
4 to indicate that a reboot should be done.  But the parent will return 8
if any of its children return non-zero status, causing rc.boot to fail on
the autoboot.

The fix is for fsck to |-or it's childrens status together, rather than
returning 8 if any are non-zero.

The workaround is to make sure that any filesystems mounted when fsck -p
runs are checked in pass 1.

@alex