Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 05:08:56 -0800 (PST) From: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> To: Jason Arnaute <non_secure@yahoo.com>, freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for a graceful way to disable BG fsck ? Message-ID: <822542.17658.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <660490.45660.qm@web51014.mail.yahoo.com>
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--- Jason Arnaute <non_secure@yahoo.com> 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.
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