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Subject: Re: fsck_y_enable: suboptimal/odd?
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on 13/01/2009 02:34 Andrew Snow said the following:
> 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.

True, I do not have softupdates enabled and I also have bg fsck
explicietely prohibited. Still I do not understand why clean filesystems
have to be checked.

-- 
Andriy Gapon