please help - explanation for odd fsck times/behavior needed

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> writes:
> So, when my system goes down unclean, and I boot back up, all the
> filesystems will be fsck'ed, starting with root, then var, then my
> other mount points, in order of the pass number in the fstab (above,
> mine is set to 2).  You should have root 1, then var 2, and other
> partitions 3,4, etc probably.

There is no advantage to using pass numbers higher than 2.  Just use 1
for the root filesystem, 0 for nfs and filesystems marked noauto, and
2 for everything else.

DES
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