Why doesn't background fsck work ?

[Juan Rodriguez Hervella]

On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:39, Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:54:44PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote:
> > Hello!:
> >
> > I tried to make my Nvidia video card work yesterday, and everytime
> > I launched the X system my computer hang up. So I had to
> > make a hard reboot.
> > (I think I will fix the Xs problem this night at home)
> >
> > But I've got another weird problem. :)
> >
> > The fsck of my partitions is always made on the foregroud,
> > although I've heard about something like a delayed/background
> > file system checker.
> >
> > Why is it always made on the foreground ?
>
> No softupdates enabled?

yes, you've got it !

I haven't got softupdates enabled, but I didn't want to enable it,
because I've heard that it isn't 100% reliable and I didn't want to lose
data....

Do you recommend me to switch it on ?

Thanks!

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JFRH