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Date:      Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:38:25 -0500
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        David Smithson <david@customfilmeffects.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD-Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: how do i stop fsck from autochecking?
Message-ID:  <20020724003825.GD62770@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <013701c232a9$d7705400$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com>
References:  <013701c232a9$d7705400$0801a8c0@customfilmeffects.com>

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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

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