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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!decwrl!netcomsv!netcom.com!alm From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore) Subject: Re: skipping fsck on boot Message-ID: <almC4L0nA.CGI@netcom.com> Organization: Netcom Online Communications Services (408-241-9760 login: guest) References: <C4JzM1.19C@rokkaku.atl.ga.us> Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1993 04:33:10 GMT Lines: 15 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 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? Maybe if you fix your system binaries (like init, sh, etc). Some kernels I've built had insidious bugs that I would never have known about if fsck didn't complain on reboot. Other that, fsck hasn't had much of a job on my system lately. Even so, running it is cheap insurance.