From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 12 21:51:06 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56B1437B401 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:51:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E831743FA3 for ; Tue, 12 Aug 2003 21:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242])h7D4p1kO023006; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:51:02 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.1])h7D4p0HT091449; Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:51:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 14:51:00 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: Joshua Oreman In-Reply-To: <20030813043621.GA560@webserver> Message-ID: <20030813144131.C90272-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck -F X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 04:51:06 -0000 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. -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/