Andrea Venturoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. > I've got a i386/6.1 box with only one big root partition. > The problem is that, whenever the machine is not properly shutdown, fsck > on boot takes eons. > > First of all: I believe that fsck should run in background, but it > doesn't. How can I tell why?
>From my desktop: mount /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/ad0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) Note that / does not have soft-updates, which I believe is the default. AFAIR, fsck can not do background mode unless soft-updates is enabled. That's likely your problem. -- Bill Moran I tore these out of your symbol, and they turned into paper -- but I want to put them back ... River Tam _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"