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Subject: Re: fsck_y_enable: suboptimal/odd?
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Andriy Gapon wrote:

> To me it seems like fsck_y passes suboptimal flags to fsck, it doesn't
> have to examine each and every filesystem in fstab.

I think think this is because it does a quick check first to see if it 
can run the fsck in background after boot into multi-user mode.

If it cannot, then fsck exits and is re-run with fsck -y and runs in 
foreground mode.


- Andrew