From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 4 15:05:55 2004 Return-Path: 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 E3D8616A4EF; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:05:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from shadow.wixb.com (shadow.wixb.com [65.43.82.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BAE43D39; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 15:05:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Received: from thinkpad.wixb.com (thinkpad.wixb.com [10.43.82.5]) i54M5ZsH000664; Fri, 4 Jun 2004 17:05:35 -0500 (CDT) Organization: Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee WI USA Message-Id: <6.1.1.1.2.20040604170255.00bf3b38@cheyenne.wixb.com> Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 17:05:34 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "J.D. Bronson" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Miltered: at shadow.wixb.com with ID 40C0F22F.000 by j-chkmail cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org Subject: more on fsck with securelevel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2004 22:05:56 -0000 I did set this in /etc/rc.conf: fsck_y_enable="YES" But I was wondering if this might be a good idea too: (looking at the defaults) fsck_y_enable="NO" # Set to YES to do fsck -y if the initial preen fails. background_fsck="YES" # Attempt to run fsck in the background where possible. background_fsck_delay="60" # Time to wait (seconds) before starting the fsck. ..might it not be prudent to set 'background_fsck="NO"' when running in secure mode? Eventhough I shut down carefully, sometimes it still feels the need to run fsck (even with soft updates)...but when running securelevel, is it actually going to accomplish anything? -jeff