Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 20:03:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck in the background Message-ID: <20060726010334.GB70646@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20060726001010.GE29366@tigger.digitaltorque.ca> References: <20060726001010.GE29366@tigger.digitaltorque.ca>
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In the last episode (Jul 25), Michael P. Soulier said: > A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to > wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home > (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in that fsck was running > non-interactively in the background. > > Question: If it finds problems that require administrator > intervention, how does it tell me if it's running in the background? It logs an error to syslog, and the next time you reboot it forces a foreground check so it can prompt you for instructions. > I like that it runs in the background, it's a 200M drive. Still, I'm > curious about this difference from Linux where I have to wait while > fsck runs. You should be using ext3 on Linux :) -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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