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Date:      Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:11:00 -0600
From:      Anti <fearow@attbi.com>
To:        "John Straiton" <jsmailing@clickcom.com>
Cc:        andyf@speednet.com.au, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Question about background FSCK
Message-ID:  <20030319091100.598bb11c.fearow@attbi.com>
In-Reply-To: <002401c2ee27$304245a0$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com>
References:  <20030319231247.B12616-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> <002401c2ee27$304245a0$1916c60a@win2k.clickcom.com>

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On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:52:32 -0500
"John Straiton" <jsmailing@clickcom.com> wrote:

> Thanks for the idea. While I'm not against the idea of the disk dying,
> this is reproduceable quite reliably. Foreground fsck -y in single user
> mode works in about 2 minutes (for the 119GB slice) flawlessly every
> time and background fsck always hangs the machine.
> 
> Additionally, the machine is about a week old Dell Poweredge 1650. While
> we all know new != works, it's less likely than a machine with a hard
> drive that's been in there awhile.
> 
> Unless there's something radically different about how fsck works in
> those two fashions, I'm going to assume the reproducability and the fact
> that I'm having similar problems on two totally different machines in
> different setups (IDE vs SCSI, P4 vs P3, Dell vs HP) means that a dying
> disk is not the problem I'm having.
> 
> So I ask the list again: Is there a way to disable the background
> checking of disks?


add background_fsck="NO" to your /etc/rc.conf


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