From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 16:56:14 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7032816A424 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:56:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7ECA43D45 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:56:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 557F2208E; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:56:09 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -2.4/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on tim.des.no Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 483A02086; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:56:09 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2BD6E33C8D; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:56:09 +0100 (CET) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Eric Anderson References: <4416EF6A.3020201@centtech.com> <86wtexdlcg.fsf@xps.des.no> <4416F448.6060602@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:56:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4416F448.6060602@centtech.com> (Eric Anderson's message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:50:16 -0600") Message-ID: <86slpldkyf.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ensel Sharon Subject: Re: please help - explanation for odd fsck times/behavior needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:56:14 -0000 Eric Anderson writes: > Ok, thanks for the insight. Someone with a commit wand should wave > it over fsck(8): No, the man page is correct. There's just no point in using more than two passes unless you have so little memory that fsck starts swapping. You'll notice that sysinstall puts everything except / in pass 2 in the fstab it generates when you install. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no