From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 31 15:04:55 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 1FD8F106564A for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:04:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f171.google.com (mail-ew0-f171.google.com [209.85.219.171]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A848FC15 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:04:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@googlemail.com) Received: by ewy19 with SMTP id 19so2403374ewy.43 for ; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:04:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:reply-to:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=cUVEBtsvYHres4u+ZL/10gkLjEX1/+C3sx+p/NF61Ag=; b=fCpAUnwFlCkzubsmFfxxxaXPC6fPc1/sENTKAVv+Vg3WkYGeK8Ih0n4dz7S4N7RfsP WAKpGlwGaBJyJRQGVFe7jPAUN2Bz8L8Ah7RfR0G6Y7ltgupXor/VSk2+L/J7puL5kl6E p6rhP5e6lgYK4CLA88Zz6Fmr6ZYf8Mkgs1ZYM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:reply-to:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id :subject:from:to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=lrGWfP9jq+RNuN5cUFG3ZMgpQVfrSW9RLRqDaKb0UMpaoURQdH9H0VlNMSESlsUmgb ZJhMun4KY+yfr3LEMElHBYt1Gkxw45S7Yem9ezx2YLS3YX0WxoOrrUZpufc2cDpWSXHo IYpFawUJGgVHDjFDISo+aKocjf/ppEffE6rY8= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.210.34.5 with SMTP id h5mr5094955ebh.59.1238511893656; Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:04:53 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090331135528.49012f60@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <49D1B297.8060307@gmail.com> <20090331080137.31122795@gluon.draftnet> <49D1F0BA.7050209@gmail.com> <20090331135528.49012f60@gumby.homeunix.com> Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:04:53 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: RW , Wojciech Puchar , invalid.pointer@gmail.com, FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: utisoft@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:04:55 -0000 On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:00:18 +0530 manish jain wrote: > Having bgfsck enabled is like > inviting a dragon to dinner when this happens. 2009/3/31 RW : > 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 -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?