Looking for a graceful way to disable BG fsck ?

[Eric Anderson]

On 02/28/07 07:08, R. B. Riddick wrote:
> --- Jason Arnaute <non_secure at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Is there any nice, elegant way to tell my system:
>>
>> "If everything is clean, then mount it all up and go. 
>> But if a non-root filesystem is not clean, just skip
>> it altogether and boot up into multiuser mode and I
>> will log in and fsck it manually.  But under no
>> circumstances will you BG fsck anything."
>>
>> Any way to do that ?
>>
> You could change
>   /etc/rc.d/fsck
> so that it will only fsck the root file system.
> 
> Then you proceed with reboot...
> 
> Then you look, if ur other file systems are mounted read-only and if yes, your
> box knows, that something was wrong with them...?
> 
> 
> WARNING: That idea needs testing...
> 
> Furthermore your applications might complain, when they find their files on a
> read-only file system...

How about setting something like this:
background_fsck_delay="864000"

in /etc/rc.conf?  That would make bg fsck wait 10 days before running. 
That will still mount the disks rw though, which is probably not what 
you really want.

Eric