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Date:      Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:38:07 +0100
From:      RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?
Message-ID:  <20080611033807.1552e75c@gumby.homeunix.com.>
In-Reply-To: <20080610215959.GA20851@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:59:59 -0400
Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:15:51PM -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote:
> 
> > I'll have to repartition my 6.3 notebook anyway.  Can you remind me
> > which filesystems I can have background fsck on? My current single
> > filesystem install checks it in foreground.
> 
> Pretty much anything but / (rot).


I think it's just a matter of turning-on soft-updates for the root
partition, which is sensible anyway if it's large.

AFAIK soft-updates are off by default for / because there's no
benefit in the standard install, and because snapshots can cause
problems with installworld on very small partitions.



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