From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 28 13:08:57 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEB0D16A402 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:08:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: from web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.69.74]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E26413C471 for ; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:08:57 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from arne_woerner@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 18120 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Feb 2007 13:08:56 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=4kKCpdeZ3ohCd0XQO85WHxHn0kHc1pzv8TzPes30AbygFAU0h12DjOqGdGzZLTVgy1rVuxDKzv6QIXwmDHLlsykh0eAy7m9q0fA5VJNxiWVrtalhI3D4U9KrMlui88cx4YeuvT/H1PTKxSSRpy6tdnaRbVq7NyqARPzS3R3nn0c=; X-YMail-OSG: 7jarRZYVM1nv09CKdgKNOWKcdjV9TRBVFiCuW.BXpfC.xAjmQ_1nw7wzQmG_uxhRqaYT4SagMUsK67fYCgxAMKqatX28T8XaoO7eIdmzeAn3Ye7P3ydrEYyEwUjKi6_jwkHf59zJOL0O0ls- Received: from [213.54.173.42] by web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:08:56 PST Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:08:56 -0800 (PST) From: "R. B. Riddick" To: Jason Arnaute , freebsd-fs@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <660490.45660.qm@web51014.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <822542.17658.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: Re: Looking for a graceful way to disable BG fsck ? 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: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:08:57 -0000 --- Jason Arnaute wrote: > 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 ? > You could change /etc/rc.d/fsck so that it will only fsck the root file system. Then you proceed with reboot... Then you look, if ur other file systems are mounted read-only and if yes, your box knows, that something was wrong with them...? WARNING: That idea needs testing... Furthermore your applications might complain, when they find their files on a read-only file system... -Arne ____________________________________________________________________________________ Have a burning question? Go to www.Answers.yahoo.com and get answers from real people who know.