On 2011/04/02 13:45, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > I do a fsck once in a while, not regular. In the last 6-8 months I > might have done it about 5 times. And I did it multi-user the few > times I did it, but plan on doing it single user in future and I do > plan to do it monthly. After seeing the messages when you fsck, it is > better to do it monthly. FreeBSD which is the origin of FFS does a ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ hmm?
> background fsck, and if Kirk McCusick feels so strongly I will do it > too. (I remember somebody talking about having background fsck here on > a openbsd list, but I forgot who it was). the background fsck there isn't done every time, just after unclean shutdown (and a right pain it was too last time I experienced it, fsck can use a lot of RAM ...)