Defer Checking on USB Drive

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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 22:12:52 +0200
Mel <fbsd.questions at rachie.is-a-geek.net> wrote:

> 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.

It's not just a matter of its being ufs2, you also need to have
soft-updates enabled for background file-checking.