From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 23 17:38:31 2002 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 331BF37B400 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:38:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1DF43E42 for ; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 17:38:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g6O0cPMQ047874; Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:38:25 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:38:25 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: David Smithson Cc: FreeBSD-Questions Subject: Re: how do i stop fsck from autochecking? Message-ID: <20020724003825.GD62770@dan.emsphone.com> References: <013701c232a9$d7705400$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <013701c232a9$d7705400$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 In the last episode (Jul 23), David Smithson said: > Hi all. > > How do I abort an auto-check on boot if a computer was shutdown > improperly? Hit ^C. If the filesystem was not mounted with softupdates enabled, though, you won't want to write to it until you finish fsck'ing it. If SU were enabled, you can safely put off the fsck until later (dismount the filesystem first). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message