Auto-mounting ext2 slices

[Kris Kennaway]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2004 at 01:25:35AM +0100, andy_park at nospammail.net wrote:
> Hi, I have recently installed FreeBSD 4.9 on my fileserver to replace 
> RH9, and have put my ext2 slice in /etc/fstab so they mount on bootup. 
> The entry on /etc/fstab is as follows:
> 
> /dev/ad1s5              /mnt/data2      ext2fs  rw              0       
> 2
> 
> However I recently experienced a blackout, and on the next boot, ext2 
> slice, marked 'dirty', wasn't fsck'ed automatically, preventing the 
> normal boot process from finishing. Is this normal behaviour? If so, 
> how would one set up an ext2 slice to auto-mount on bootup, and fsck 
> itself if marked dirty so it continues to mount as rw?

You need to have fsck_ext2fs installed.  This is included in the
e2fsprogs port.

Kris
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