From owner-freebsd-fs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 14 17:04:55 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 6E5D116A424 for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:04:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from mh1.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6378443D6A for ; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 17:04:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from [10.177.171.220] (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by mh1.centtech.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2EH4g2U075981; Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:04:42 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4416F7A7.90800@centtech.com> Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 11:04:39 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060112) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= References: <4416EF6A.3020201@centtech.com> <86wtexdlcg.fsf@xps.des.no> <4416F448.6060602@centtech.com> <86slpldkyf.fsf@xps.des.no> In-Reply-To: <86slpldkyf.fsf@xps.des.no> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87.1/1329/Mon Mar 13 18:22:03 2006 on mh1.centtech.com X-Virus-Status: Clean 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 17:04:55 -0000 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Eric Anderson writes: > >> Ok, thanks for the insight. Someone with a commit wand should wave >> it over fsck(8): >> > > No, the man page is correct. There's just no point in using more than > two passes unless you have so little memory that fsck starts swapping. > You'll notice that sysinstall puts everything except / in pass 2 in > the fstab it generates when you install. > Or you have such large partitions, that you need the entire amount of memory to fsck a single filesystem at all. While we're on this topic, my fsck's never seem to want to swap, they die with an error (can't recall the error), to get around it I set maxdsiz to a huge number (3gb-ish). Setting maxdsiz any higher makes the machine not boot (can't run init). Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Sr. Systems Administrator Centaur Technology Anything that works is better than anything that doesn't. ------------------------------------------------------------------------