Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Pretty much anything but / (rot). I think it's just a matter of turning-on soft-updates for the root partition, which is sensible anyway if it's large. root partition is always checked foreground. i would be possible to check it background after modifying /etc/rc.d/* scripts

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-11 Thread RW
On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:37:22 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pretty much anything but / (rot). I think it's just a matter of turning-on soft-updates for the root partition, which is sensible anyway if it's large. root partition is always checked foreground. i

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
check it background after modifying /etc/rc.d/* scripts There is no explicit fsck for the root partition. If you have background-checking enabled there is a single call to fsck -p -F that does foreground checking on filesystems in fstab that aren't eligible for background-checking. AFAIK the

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-10 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 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. | | If I have a separate /boot, would /

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-10 Thread Martin Cracauer
Pietro Cerutti wrote on Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:52:27PM +0200: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 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

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-10 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Pietro Cerutti on 06/10/08 16:52 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. | | If I have a separate /boot, would /

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:15:51PM -0400, 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. Pretty much anything but / (rot). jerry

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'll have to repartition my 6.3 notebook anyway. Can you remind me anything except / can be. actually - i turn background_fsck off. it's better to check filesystems at start and be sure system runs clean. unless you have crashes everyday ;( ___

Re: Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

2008-06-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:59:59 -0400 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:15:51PM -0400, 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