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Subject: Re: Looking for a graceful way to disable BG fsck ?
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On 02/28/07 10:18, Jason Arnaute wrote:
> --- Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
> 
>> How about setting something like this:
>> background_fsck_delay="864000"
>>
>> in /etc/rc.conf?  That would make bg fsck wait 10
>> days before running. 
>> That will still mount the disks rw though, which is
>> probably not what 
>> you really want.
> 
> 
> Thanks - this may be the most useful way to do this.
> 
> But you're right - it's not exactly what I want ...
> provided that the critical filesystems are already
> clean (all I have are /, /var, and (bulk_data)) I wish
> it would just come up and say:
> 
> "if they're clean, mount them and be happy.  If
> they're not, just _don't mount them_.  Just don't do
> anything.  You've got your / and /var, so just be
> happy and wait for someone to manually bring up
> (bulk_data)"
> 
> The reason this would work is that / and /var _always_
> get foreground fsck'd before the system can go
> multi-user anyway ... so they are always safe ...


You could work up a patch to the rc* stuff (plus maybe a few other 
tools) that would allow a new FSTAB_** define that means just that.


Eric