Remind me which filesystems exactly can be background fscked?

Jerry McAllister jerrymc at msu.edu
Tue Jun 10 22:05:06 UTC 2008


On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 05:15:51PM -0400, Martin Cracauer wrote:

> I'll have to repartition my 6.3 notebook anyway.  Can you remind me
> which filesystems I can have background fsck on? My current single
> filesystem install checks it in foreground.

Pretty much anything but / (rot).

////jerry


> 
> If I have a separate /boot, would / be background fscked?
> 
> Or is the root filesystem always foreground checked?
> 
> Thanks
> 	Martin
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