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Subject: Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?
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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.