Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:39:55 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Jared Carlson <jcarlson23@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Question about file system checks Message-ID: <47EBA3AB.40307@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <902733.27279.qm@web33004.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <902733.27279.qm@web33004.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Jared Carlson wrote:
> Hi I have a question about startup scripts for BSD distributions.
> Can you turn off the file system check that occurs every 30 boots,
> etc? I recall this being the case on a BSD platform, although my Mac
> OS X doesn't (to my knowledge) do a file system check that often at
> all.
You are thinking of the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem.
UFS and UFS2 as found on *BSD have never required anything like that: they
only need fsck'ing after an unclean shutdown.
Cheers,
Matthew
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