Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:58:37 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What exactly do I have to do to get background fsck? Message-ID: <20080229215837.50f9fd7d@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <20080229174508.GA10369@cons.org> References: <20080229174508.GA10369@cons.org>
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On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:45:08 -0500 Martin Cracauer <cracauer@cons.org> wrote: > My Thinkpad got instable, and I haven't figured out yet whether it's > hardware, FreeBSD's RELENG_6 kernel or X11/DRI. Anyway... > > I always go through a foreground fsck, no matter whether the thing > paniced or had a powercycle, or how long it has been up. I have > softupdates activated but I must be missing something. > > I badly need background fsck. We are talking a 1.3 GHz, a 5400 rpm > P-ATA notebook harddrive with a 150 GB filesystem here :-/ It's the default for all partitions with soft-updates enabled. sysinstall defaults to enabling soft-updates on all except the root partition, so if you created one big partition you need to use tunefs to enable soft-updates.
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