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On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:53:34AM +1000 or thereabouts, Andy Farkas wrote:
> On 6 Aug 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> 
> > David Bear <David.Bear@asu.edu> writes:
> >
> > > on linux there is a -F option to force a fsck on reboot.  I couldn't
> > > see the equivalent in freebsd.
> >
> > That's what /etc/rc.early is for.
> > [man rc.early]
> 
> Uhm, man fsck.
> 
> fsck already runs at boot.

Yes. But they won't run if the filesystem is marked ``clean''.

Actually, what shutdown -F does is touch /forcefsck. (In a similar vein,
shutdown -f touches /fastboot). The rc scripts check this and add appropriate
flags to the invocation of fsck (or in the case of /fastboot don't invoke it).

/fastboot would not work on FBSD as the fsck protection is enforced (in linux
there's a warning but no error). But /forcefsck could still be implemented with
suitable patches to your rc scripts and (optionally) shutdown.

-- Josh

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