On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 03:23:24PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > I've actually seen quite a few appliances that are really custom-built > PCs running Linux and using normal HDDs. I just wonder what they're > doing to assure it won't get stuck in fsck, or worse, if the power > fails. The Equiinet Netpilot just uses ext3 but with the bootstrap partition arranged to contain only read-only content so that it is very unlikely that it will fail to fsck. Ext3 with data-logging enabled and disk write cache off is very reliable. > Speaking of which, what's the "official" Fedora way :-) to tell fsck to > just go ahead fix the disk and don't ask anything? Add "-y" 8)