please help - explanation for odd fsck times/behavior needed

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> writes:
> Ok, thanks for the insight.  Someone with a commit wand should wave
> it over fsck(8):

No, the man page is correct.  There's just no point in using more than
two passes unless you have so little memory that fsck starts swapping.
You'll notice that sysinstall puts everything except / in pass 2 in
the fstab it generates when you install.

DES
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