From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 07:49:46 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75400106564A for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:49:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl [IPv6:2001:4070:101:2::1]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F10FB8FC19 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:49:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2V7naho018491; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:49:36 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Received: from localhost (wojtek@localhost) by wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) with ESMTP id n2V7nYWu018488; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:49:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 09:49:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Wojciech Puchar To: manish jain In-Reply-To: <49D1B297.8060307@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <49D1B297.8060307@gmail.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:49:46 -0000 i don't know why you do want to FORCE it every boot. in FreeBSD it's not needed. but you may add background_fsck="NO" to check filesystems at boot when needed, not delayed. IMHO this background fsck isn't good idea at all