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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:04:53 +0100
From:      Chris Rees <utisoft@googlemail.com>
To:        RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>,  Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, invalid.pointer@gmail.com,  FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime
Message-ID:  <b79ecaef0903310804r4db0d3f6j8c2b952a0656be64@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:00:18 +0530
manish jain <invalid.pointer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Having bgfsck enabled is like
> inviting a dragon to dinner when this happens.

2009/3/31 RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>:
> 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.


Seriously, why is everyone against background fsck? Can anyone give a
good reason? Please?

Chris

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