On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:58:23AM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: > 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.
fsck(8) suggests that any file system required during the boot process is not a valid candidate for background checking. Naturally, there is no file system more important to the boot process than / so it cannot be checked in the background. I'm not sure if softupdates has any bearing on background fscking, but IANAE, and all that. So, as jerry said, it's a Bad Idea to have just one partition, for many reasons, this being among them. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key: http://www.slightlystrange.org/pgpkey-dan.asc PGP Key fingerprint: D349 B109 0EB8 2554 4D75 B79A 8B17 F97C 1622 166A _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \
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