On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 17:14:02 -0800 David Wolfskill <[email protected]> wrote:
> At work, we have some machines we're setting up that have a fair > amount of UFS2 "scratch space." > > While we would prefer to leave the file systems in question intact > iff they are "clean," we do not want to run fsck(8) against them > if they are not (because we expect that it would take too long); > rather, we want to merely recreate them (with newfs(8)). > > While I might be able to hack something together by cribbing > appropriate bits of fsck_ffs(8), I'm a great deal more comfortable > cobbling up glue scripts and the like -- I don't fancy myself all > that much of a C coder. > > Anyone know of a reasonable way to quickly determine whether or not > a UFS2 file system is clean from the command line? dumpfs will tell you the status of the 'clean' flag: dumpfs /dev/ad0s1d | grep clean That will output a line like: cgrotor 0 fmod 0 ronly 0 clean 1 Just like with fsck you can also tell dumpfs the previous mountpoint too and it'll use the right device. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
