Re: fsck -F

2003-08-14 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 02:51:00PM +1000 or thereabouts, Andy Farkas wrote: Joshua Oreman wrote: fsck already runs at boot. Yes. But they won't run if the filesystem is marked ``clean''. Why would you want to fsck a clean disk? During every boot??? Actually, what shutdown -F does

Re: fsck -F

2003-08-14 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, A Related question is how to I defrag my freebsd installation if it says that /dev/adas1 etc is 4.6% fragmented etc? The word is used to mean something different in UNIX that in MS. It is a different concept. Basically don't worry about it. It does not mean your disk is working

Re: fsck -F

2003-08-14 Thread Andy Farkas
Joshua Oreman wrote: fsck already runs at boot. Yes. But they won't run if the filesystem is marked ``clean''. Why would you want to fsck a clean disk? During every boot??? Actually, what shutdown -F does is touch /forcefsck. (In a similar vein, shutdown -f touches /fastboot). The rc

Re: fsck -F

2003-08-14 Thread Andy Farkas
On 6 Aug 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on linux there is a -F option to force a fsck on reboot. I couldn't see the equivalent in freebsd. That's what /etc/rc.early is for. [man rc.early] Uhm, man fsck. fsck already runs at boot. -- :{ [EMAIL

Re: fsck -F

2003-08-14 Thread Joshua Oreman
On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 11:53:34AM +1000 or thereabouts, Andy Farkas wrote: On 6 Aug 2003, Lowell Gilbert wrote: David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on linux there is a -F option to force a fsck on reboot. I couldn't see the equivalent in freebsd. That's what /etc/rc.early is

Re: fsck -F

2003-08-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on linux there is a -F option to force a fsck on reboot. I couldn't see the equivalent in freebsd. That's what /etc/rc.early is for. [man rc.early] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

fsck -F

2003-08-14 Thread David Bear
on linux there is a -F option to force a fsck on reboot. I couldn't see the equivalent in freebsd. I have a couple of headless freebsd boxes that if they are ever tampered with (well, no they are not in secured locations and they are not secure boxes with keys, they are old pentiums that were

Re: fsck -F

2003-08-10 Thread Jiger Java
Hi, A Related question is how to I defrag my freebsd installation if it says that /dev/adas1 etc is 4.6% fragmented etc? -Jiger From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] David Bear [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on linux there is a -F option to force a fsck on reboot. I couldn't see the

Re: fsck -F

2003-08-06 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: Jiger Java [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 12:09 AM Subject: Re: fsck -F Hi, A Related question is how to I defrag my freebsd installation if it says that /dev/adas1 etc is 4.6% fragmented etc? -Jiger As I