Question about file system checks

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Thu Mar 27 06:40:27 PDT 2008


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Jared Carlson wrote:
> Hi I have a question about startup scripts for BSD distributions.
> Can you turn off the file system check that occurs every 30 boots,
> etc?  I recall this being the case on a BSD platform, although my Mac
> OS X doesn't (to my knowledge) do a file system check that often at
> all.

You are thinking of the Linux ext2/ext3 filesystem.

UFS and UFS2 as found on *BSD have never required anything like that: they
only need fsck'ing after an unclean shutdown.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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