Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:20:12 -0700 From: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck -F Message-ID: <20030813182012.GA3027@webserver> In-Reply-To: <20030813144131.C90272-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20030813043621.GA560@webserver> <20030813144131.C90272-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:51:00PM +1000 or thereabouts, Andy Farkas wrote:
> Joshua Oreman wrote:
>
> > > fsck already runs at boot.
> >
> > Yes. But they won't run if the filesystem is marked ``clean''.
>
> Why would you want to fsck a clean disk? During every boot???
>
> > Actually, what shutdown -F does is touch /forcefsck. (In a similar vein,
> > shutdown -f touches /fastboot). The rc scripts check this and add appropriate
> > flags to the invocation of fsck (or in the case of /fastboot don't invoke it).
>
> You must be talking about another OS. FreeBSD's shutdown doesnt have -F or -f flag.
I was giving the example in Linux that the OP asked about, so they could implement
it under FBSD if they wanted. I said that in my mail, in the part you trimmed.
One would check for the existence of /forcefsck in the rc scripts and, if it was there,
run fsck *for that one boot* even if the filesystems were clean. Then /forcefsck would
be removed so it didn't happen on the next boot.
Shutdown *could* be patched to add an option for this if it was implemented in the rc
scripts.
Why one would want to do this, I don't know. But this was what the OP asked.
-- Josh
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> Andy Farkas
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