Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 07:21:35 -0600 From: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> To: "R. B. Riddick" <arne_woerner@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Jason Arnaute <non_secure@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: Looking for a graceful way to disable BG fsck ? Message-ID: <45E581DF.4070706@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <822542.17658.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <822542.17658.qm@web30312.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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On 02/28/07 07:08, R. B. Riddick wrote: > --- Jason Arnaute <non_secure@yahoo.com> wrote: >> Is there any nice, elegant way to tell my system: >> >> "If everything is clean, then mount it all up and go. >> But if a non-root filesystem is not clean, just skip >> it altogether and boot up into multiuser mode and I >> will log in and fsck it manually. But under no >> circumstances will you BG fsck anything." >> >> Any way to do that ? >> > You could change > /etc/rc.d/fsck > so that it will only fsck the root file system. > > Then you proceed with reboot... > > Then you look, if ur other file systems are mounted read-only and if yes, your > box knows, that something was wrong with them...? > > > WARNING: That idea needs testing... > > Furthermore your applications might complain, when they find their files on a > read-only file system... How about setting something like this: background_fsck_delay="864000" in /etc/rc.conf? That would make bg fsck wait 10 days before running. That will still mount the disks rw though, which is probably not what you really want. Eric
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