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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!emory!nanovx!dragon!rokkaku!kml Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: skipping fsck on boot Message-ID: <C4JzM1.19C@rokkaku.atl.ga.us> From: kml@rokkaku.atl.ga.us (Kevin Lahey) Date: Sat, 27 Mar 1993 15:13:12 GMT Organization: Geeks-R-Us Lines: 20 I'm getting pretty tired of waiting for 386BSD to finish fsck'ing my partitions on boot up. [Some would suggest that I should ditch some disk; I'll ignore 'em.] I have used other modern UNIXes that don't bother with the fsck if the partition has been cleanly unmounted. How dangerous (and tough) would it be for me to set up 386BSD to skip the fsck's at boot? I assume that I'd have to change some of the filesystem code to set a flag on umount, and that I'd have to add some code to fsck to check for that flag and skip on to the next partition. Are there some other hidden pitfalls? Is this a religious issue? Thanks, Kevin kml@rokkaku.atl.ga.us Again, it's one thing to be fun, entertaining and wrong, and quite another to be boring, self-important and wrong. -- Vince Gibboni