Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 16:56:34 -0500 From: Reid Linnemann <lreid@cs.okstate.edu> To: Pietro Cerutti <gahr@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked? Message-ID: <484EF892.3060603@cs.okstate.edu> In-Reply-To: <484EF79B.5080603@FreeBSD.org> References: <20080610211551.GA79421@cons.org> <484EF79B.5080603@FreeBSD.org>
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Written by Pietro Cerutti on 06/10/08 16:52>> > Martin Cracauer wrote: > | I'll have to repartition my 6.3 notebook anyway. Can you remind me > | which filesystems I can have background fsck on? My current single > | filesystem install checks it in foreground. > | > | If I have a separate /boot, would / be background fscked? > | > | Or is the root filesystem always foreground checked? > > AFAIK, UFS supports background checks as long as the fstab entries don't > include the async option. > fsck_ffs(8): To be eligible for background cleaning it must have been running with soft updates, not have been marked as needing a foreground check, and be mounted and writable when the background check is to be done. If these conditions are met, then fsck_ffs exits with a zero exit status. Otherwise it exits with a non-zero exit status. If the file system is clean, it will exit with a non- zero exit status so that the clean status of the file system can be verified and reported during the foreground checks.
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