From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 18 08:51:37 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B75A37B401 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:51:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.uc3m.es (smtp03.uc3m.es [163.117.136.123]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1244D43F85 for ; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 08:51:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jrh@it.uc3m.es) Received: from smtp03.uc3m.es (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.uc3m.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5013743333; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:51:35 +0200 (CEST) Received: from itserv2.lab.it.uc3m.es (itserv2.lab.it.uc3m.es [163.117.144.121]) by smtp03.uc3m.es (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24A3E2B68D; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:51:33 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pepitogrillo.it.uc3m.es (pepitogrillo.it.uc3m.es [163.117.140.44]) by itserv2.lab.it.uc3m.es (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA30610; Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:51:32 +0200 From: Juan Rodriguez Hervella Organization: UC3M To: ticso@cicely.de, Bernd Walter Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:51:00 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <200306181654.45249.jrh@it.uc3m.es> <20030618153935.GP3626@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <20030618153935.GP3626@cicely12.cicely.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200306181751.01998.jrh@it.uc3m.es> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why doesn't background fsck work ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 15:51:37 -0000 On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:39, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:54:44PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > > Hello!: > > > > I tried to make my Nvidia video card work yesterday, and everytime > > I launched the X system my computer hang up. So I had to > > make a hard reboot. > > (I think I will fix the Xs problem this night at home) > > > > But I've got another weird problem. :) > > > > The fsck of my partitions is always made on the foregroud, > > although I've heard about something like a delayed/background > > file system checker. > > > > Why is it always made on the foreground ? > > No softupdates enabled? yes, you've got it ! I haven't got softupdates enabled, but I didn't want to enable it, because I've heard that it isn't 100% reliable and I didn't want to lose data.... Do you recommend me to switch it on ? Thanks! -- JFRH