conf/73008: `fsck -y' tortures clean disks needlessly

Mikhail Teterin mi at aldan.algebra.com
Fri Oct 22 09:10:22 PDT 2004


>Number:         73008
>Category:       conf
>Synopsis:       `fsck -y' tortures clean disks needlessly
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Oct 22 16:10:21 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mikhail Teterin
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
Virtual Estates, Inc.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mi 6.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT #1: Wed Oct 20 12:08:24 EDT 2004 mteterin at mi:/meow/obj/misha/src/sys/Gigabyte i386


>Description:
	Should the 'file system preen fail' and the fsck_y_enable
	be set to "YES", the /etc/rc.d/fsck will try `fsck -y'. This
	means, that even the now clean filesystems will be re-checked,
	sometimes adding many minutes to the start-up time.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

Index: fsck
===================================================================
RCS file: /meow/ncvs/src/etc/rc.d/fsck,v
retrieving revision 1.10
diff -U2 -r1.10 fsck
--- src/etc/rc.d/fsck	7 Oct 2004 13:55:25 -0000	1.10
+++ src/etc/rc.d/fsck	22 Oct 2004 15:59:39 -0000
@@ -58,5 +58,5 @@
 			if checkyesno fsck_y_enable; then
 				echo "File system preen failed, trying fsck -y."
-				fsck -y
+				fsck -yp
 				case $? in
 				0)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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