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Subject: Re: how does a system come up if you disable background fsck ?
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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