Question about forcing fsck at boottime

[manish jain]

Bruce Cran wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 11:35:11 +0530
> manish jain <invalid.pointer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am migrating from Linux and am still learning the basics of
>> FreeBSD. One thing that I would to carry over from my Linux days is
>> to force an fsck on all filesystems at system startup. On Linux, this
>> was simply a matter of editing /etc/rc.sysinit. Things seem a bit
>> more complicated in the BSD world. Can somebody please point me in
>> the right direction ?
>>
> 
> I found this from a post last year:
> 
> echo '/sbin/fsck -y -f' >> /etc/rc.early
> 

Hi Bruce/Everyone else,

Thanks for the rc.early tip.

BTW, a lot of people who posted replies thought I was not aware that a 
preen is always executed at startup. When I said I wanted to force an 
fsck, I meant 'fsck -fy'. As for background checks, they are - in my 
opinion - a real nightmare. Even though I am just a learner on FreeBSD 
still, I can assure anyone, putting background_fsck="NO" into your 
rc.conf is one of the best things you can do.

As for the reason why I want to force fsck is that it has now happened 3 
timed that, after a clean and proper shutdown - with no foreign 
filesystems mounted, FreeBSD has complained on system restart (twice on 
a 5.x distribution I had briefly used and now once on 7.1) that / was 
not properly unmounted. Having bgfsck enabled is like inviting a dragon 
to dinner when this happens.

-- 
Thank you and Regards
Manish Jain
invalid.pointer at gmail.com
+91-99830-62246

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