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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2007 21:17:42 -0800 (PST)
From:      Jason Arnaute <non_secure@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-fs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Looking for a graceful way to disable BG fsck ?
Message-ID:  <660490.45660.qm@web51014.mail.yahoo.com>

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I do not particularly like to do a BG fsck - it takes
forever and the system is near unusable while it goes
... and I don't mind just taking it down for a little
while to get it over with.

However, if I set the system:

background_fsck="no"

Then I have to wait for all mounts to fsck before the
system will even come up on the network in a
multi-user fashion.

So what I am doing now is, if I have to reset a hung
server, I quick race to log in, like an idiot, and
hopefully log in and comment out the filesystems in
fstab before 60 seconds expires and the bg fscks
start.

Because if I miss it, I'm screwed - you can't kill a
BG fsck, and you can't reboot the system while a BG
fsck is going on.  So then you have to reset it again,
which is scary because you've got a dirty filesystem,
while being fsck'd, and then you dirty it up some
more.

So one plan is to just leave the non-root filesystems
commented in /etc/fstab all the time, but that's not
nice because if you ever need to legitimately
(gracefully, on purpose) reboot, then they don't come
up.  Bleah.

So my question is this:

Is there any nice, elegant way to tell my system:

"If everything is clean, then mount it all up and go. 
But if a non-root filesystem is not clean, just skip
it altogether and boot up into multiuser mode and I
will log in and fsck it manually.  But under no
circumstances will you BG fsck anything."

Any way to do that ?


 
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