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Date:      Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:10:11 +0200
From:      Marc =?iso-8859-1?q?L=F6rner?= <marc.loerner@hob.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: forcefsck on booting stage
Message-ID:  <200807281510.12070.marc.loerner@hob.de>
In-Reply-To: <20080728130057.GA798@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
References:  <488DB785.3020805@gmail.com> <20080728130057.GA798@eos.sc1.parodius.com>

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On Monday 28 July 2008 15:00, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:11:49PM +0400, sam wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How to make 'fsck -f' on booting stage of remote system?
>
> I believe by setting background_fsck="no" in /etc/rc.conf?  That's the
> only way I know of, besides booting single user and doing it manually.

Doesn't this only disable background fsck support?
By creating file "/forcefsck" you can force an fsck at next reboot, because 
some scripts test for existence.

HTH,
Marc Loerner



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