From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 16:47:56 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A87A16A43B for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:47:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (tim.des.no [194.63.250.121]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A32B243D5D for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:47:51 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from tim.des.no (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spam.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id ACFC5208E; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:47:44 +0100 (CET) X-Spam-Tests: AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Learn: ham X-Spam-Score: -2.4/3.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.0 (2005-09-13) on tim.des.no Received: from xps.des.no (des.no [80.203.243.180]) by tim.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AEF2086; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:47:44 +0100 (CET) Received: by xps.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 01F5833C8D; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:47:43 +0100 (CET) From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?Q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Eric Anderson References: <4416EF6A.3020201@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:47:43 +0100 In-Reply-To: <4416EF6A.3020201@centtech.com> (Eric Anderson's message of "Tue, 14 Mar 2006 10:29:30 -0600") Message-ID: <86wtexdlcg.fsf@xps.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org, Ensel Sharon Subject: Re: please help - explanation for odd fsck times/behavior needed X-BeenThere: freebsd-fs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Filesystems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 16:47:56 -0000 Eric Anderson writes: > So, when my system goes down unclean, and I boot back up, all the > filesystems will be fsck'ed, starting with root, then var, then my > other mount points, in order of the pass number in the fstab (above, > mine is set to 2). You should have root 1, then var 2, and other > partitions 3,4, etc probably. There is no advantage to using pass numbers higher than 2. Just use 1 for the root filesystem, 0 for nfs and filesystems marked noauto, and 2 for everything else. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no