From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 7:11:24 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F1D437B401 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:11:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C44F43FA3 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 07:11:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fearow@attbi.com) Received: from god.woofcat.com (12-251-110-17.client.attbi.com[12.251.110.17]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52) with SMTP id <2003031915112105200efbp2e>; Wed, 19 Mar 2003 15:11:22 +0000 Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:11:00 -0600 From: Anti To: "John Straiton" 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> Organization: Woofcat X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:52:32 -0500 "John Straiton" 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message