Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:51:00 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: Joshua Oreman <oremanj@get-linux.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck -F Message-ID: <20030813144131.C90272-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20030813043621.GA560@webserver>
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Joshua Oreman wrote:
> > fsck already runs at boot.
>
> Yes. But they won't run if the filesystem is marked ``clean''.
Why would you want to fsck a clean disk? During every boot???
> 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).
You must be talking about another OS. FreeBSD's shutdown doesnt have -F or -f flag.
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