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Wojciech Puchar writes:

>  background_fsck="NO"
>  
>  in rc.conf
>  
>  unix doesn't crash every few hours so it's really not a problem
>  to wait a bit more

	Cases and personal tolerance may vary.
	One of my machines has a pair of 50gb SCSI disks; running two
full passes takes about 7 minutes.
	I have no idea how long it might take to check a multi-terabyte
RAID-<mumble> set-up.
	Still worth waiting ... in my opinion.


					Robert Huff