Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 21:21:07 +0100 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Defer Checking on USB Drive Message-ID: <20080414212107.78372e7c@gumby.homeunix.com.> In-Reply-To: <200804142212.52980.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <1208202333.17878.117.camel@r2d2> <200804142212.52980.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:12:52 +0200 Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote: > On Monday 14 April 2008 21:45:32 Andy Christianson wrote: > > > Is there a way to have the file system > > check for the partition that resides on the USB drive follow this > > same behavior? > > man tunefs, specifically, it needs to be ufs2 partitioned. Good > telltale if it is ufs2 is the precense of a .snap directory in the > root of the partition. fsck uses this to make a snapshot of the > partition so that it can defer the fsck. It's not just a matter of its being ufs2, you also need to have soft-updates enabled for background file-checking.
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