Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 14:22:51 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck in the background Message-ID: <200607261422.52997.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <20060726010334.GB70646@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20060726001010.GE29366@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> <20060726010334.GB70646@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Wednesday 26 July 2006 02:03, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 25), Michael P. Soulier said: > > A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to > > wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home > > (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in that fsck was running > > non-interactively in the background. > > > > Question: If it finds problems that require administrator > > intervention, how does it tell me if it's running in the background? > > It logs an error to syslog, and the next time you reboot it forces a > foreground check so it can prompt you for instructions. Although to the best of my knowledge, I've never actually seen that happen. What I see is usually the background check works, occasionally the preliminary fsck -F will fail. IIRC that leaves me in single user mode, with instructions to fsck the partition manually.
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