From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 12:55:34 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 206831065678 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:55:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.154]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B0BE8FC16 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:55:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rwmaillists@googlemail.com) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 19so429804fgg.12 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:55:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=HHACnKc9/Ue7A4OxxmgdDdOoLPvzYUUtw5FLnvLJZO8=; b=OsUMfUvHh0H6srUOI+Rtdj6JwFJ2vkUdWjyMGrBZamKna7nnAZGwh3LP7dWX1CKq0c SsAk2mUaDXibnVGuQamMZckOf4gixpA09SFHvMBICk2g5h+6Y5uzIPcqcmo9HHYASrC4 BOkoXAD4Q3nRhCRoiSOWJGnh8nBUc6ab5c2Ig= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=PUQhrBBnZPABDOO/Av525hXvU1g9Y9MLGmTskJTtHf/ic4K+Us4VnqaRPxLum/9SLY t8/uqsJcoC0sH6oEKwVm4MbOLkzfk9KfqNGjW0XpBPt8CwffFuJMPVGeXG71t36YHDW0 aU6exdsD/Ajb95OtueFCwq6SWTHcUqovNJEVo= Received: by 10.86.79.12 with SMTP id c12mr5097044fgb.64.1238504132519; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:55:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gumby.homeunix.com (bb-87-81-140-128.ukonline.co.uk [87.81.140.128]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm40205fga.27.2009.03.31.05.55.30 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 31 Mar 2009 05:55:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:55:28 +0100 From: RW To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090331135528.49012f60@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <49D1F0BA.7050209@gmail.com> References: <49D1B297.8060307@gmail.com> <20090331080137.31122795@gluon.draftnet> <49D1F0BA.7050209@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-portbld-freebsd7.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 12:55:34 -0000 On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:00:18 +0530 manish jain wrote: > As for the reason why I want to force fsck is that it has now > happened 3 timed that, after a clean and proper shutdown - with no > foreign filesystems mounted, FreeBSD has complained on system restart > (twice on a 5.x distribution I had briefly used and now once on 7.1) > that / was not properly unmounted. Having bgfsck enabled is like > inviting a dragon to dinner when this happens. If you've done a normal install, soft-updates aren't enabled on /, so it will get foreground checked by default. If I were you I'd reboot into single user mode and do a full fsck on it.