fsck way too slow

[Bill Moran]

Andrea Venturoli <ml.diespammer at netfence.it> wrote:

> Hello.
> I've got a i386/6.1 box with only one big root partition.
> The problem is that, whenever the machine is not properly shutdown, fsck 
> on boot takes eons.
> 
> First of all: I believe that fsck should run in background, but it 
> doesn't. How can I tell why?

>From my desktop:
mount
/dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
/dev/ad0s1d on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates)
/dev/ad0s1e on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates)

Note that / does not have soft-updates, which I believe is the default.
AFAIR, fsck can not do background mode unless soft-updates is enabled.

That's likely your problem.

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Bill Moran

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