Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

Martin Cracauer cracauer at cons.org
Tue Jun 10 21:55:52 UTC 2008


Pietro Cerutti wrote on Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:52:27PM +0200: 
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> Martin Cracauer wrote:
> | I'll have to repartition my 6.3 notebook anyway.  Can you remind me
> | which filesystems I can have background fsck on? My current single
> | filesystem install checks it in foreground.
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> | If I have a separate /boot, would / be background fscked?
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> | Or is the root filesystem always foreground checked?
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> AFAIK, UFS supports background checks as long as the fstab entries don't
> include the async option.

I certainly don't get background fsck as-is, never.

Maybe there's something wrong with this fstab line?
/dev/ad0s1a     /                       ufs     rw              1 1

That's the only filesystem in that machine.

Thanks
	Martin
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