In the last episode (Jul 25), Michael P. Soulier said: > A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to > wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home > (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in that fsck was running > non-interactively in the background. > > Question: If it finds problems that require administrator > intervention, how does it tell me if it's running in the background?
It logs an error to syslog, and the next time you reboot it forces a foreground check so it can prompt you for instructions. > I like that it runs in the background, it's a 200M drive. Still, I'm > curious about this difference from Linux where I have to wait while > fsck runs. You should be using ext3 on Linux :) -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"