Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:36:14 -0800 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: Ensel Sharon <user@dhp.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how does a system come up if you disable background fsck ? Message-ID: <4416483E.70600@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0603132316120.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0603132316120.8684-100000@shell.dhp.com>
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Ensel Sharon wrote: > I have disabled background fsck in my /etc/rc.conf with: > > background_fsck="no" > > But I am curious - what does this mean for the system if the system > crashes ? > > Does this mean that the system will wait for all non root partitions to > fully fsck before coming up into multi-user mode ? > > OR > > Does it mean the system will boot up quickly into multi-user mode, but the > non-root partitions will just not be mounted and/or usable until I fsck > them by hand ? > > thanks. The former, as I can say with ample experience this morning. (stupid USB panic) HTH, Micah
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