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> References: <20080610211551.GA79421@cons.org> <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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