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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Subject: Re: skipping fsck on boot
Message-ID: <C4LvFs.2pG@chinet.chi.il.us>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
References: <C4JzM1.19C@rokkaku.atl.ga.us>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 15:38:15 GMT
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In article <C4JzM1.19C@rokkaku.atl.ga.us> kml@rokkaku.atl.ga.us (Kevin Lahey) writes:
>
>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 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

	Use fastboot and fasthalt.  Won't run fsck on startup.
	You can trace down what those programs do, I guess to make
	it permanent.

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Randy Suess					 randy@chinet.chi.il.us