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From: hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: automatic YES to fsck??
Date: 27 Oct 1995 16:07:47 +0100
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root@buffnet.net (Superuser) writes:
>post panic crash for instance) it will assume yes to any and all 

>Is there an equivalent with freebsd?  I read the man page on fstab and 
>there was no such reference.

My manpage on fsck says:

     -y      Assume a yes response to all questions asked by fsck; this should
             be used with great caution as this is a free license to continue
             after essentially unlimited trouble has been encountered.

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