Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2008 12:34:50 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked? Message-ID: <20080611123450.6a01e462@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080611103634.J58163@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> References: <20080610211551.GA79421@cons.org> <20080610215959.GA20851@gizmo.acns.msu.edu> <20080611033807.1552e75c@gumby.homeunix.com.> <20080611103634.J58163@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
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On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:37:22 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> Pretty much anything but / (rot). > > > > > > I think it's just a matter of turning-on soft-updates for the root > > partition, which is sensible anyway if it's large. > > root partition is always checked foreground. i would be possible to > check it background after modifying /etc/rc.d/* scripts > There is no explicit fsck for the root partition. If you have background-checking enabled there is a single call to "fsck -p -F" that does foreground checking on filesystems in fstab that aren't eligible for background-checking. AFAIK the sole reason that root is foreground checked is that sysinstall doesn't set soft-updates on it.
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