Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: > Sorry I'm not subscribed to the misc@ list, I read on a web archive. > So I can't reply directly to the recent discussion about how to do > newfs / fsck etc on large file systems (memory issue). > > I have one box with relatively limited memory and had to make a > change directly to /etc/rc (yes, horrors)!. > > The change is > > fsck -p -l 1 > > This keeps fsck from checking more than one disk in parallel.
You should be able to get the same result using proper values for fs_passno in /etc/fstab. $ man fstab /passno /Alexander
