Defer Checking on USB Drive

Mel fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net
Mon Apr 14 20:12:56 UTC 2008


On Monday 14 April 2008 21:45:32 Andy Christianson wrote:

> Is there a way to have the file system
> check for the partition that resides on the USB drive follow this same
> behavior?

man tunefs, specifically, it needs to be ufs2 partitioned. Good telltale if it 
is ufs2 is the precense of a .snap directory in the root of the partition.
fsck uses this to make a snapshot of the partition so that it can defer the 
fsck.
And yes, could be your pass flag in fstab is set to 1, rather then 2.
-- 
Mel

Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
    and never get to the software part.


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