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From: curt@portal.ca (Curt Sampson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Not doing fsck on reboot
Date: 4 Jan 1996 17:42:13 -0800
Organization: Internet Portal Services, Ltd.
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References: <4cfdum$oqo@picasso.op.net> <4cfhuf$q0b@picasso.op.net> <4cgjeh$2fl@sundog.tiac.net>
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In article <4cgjeh$2fl@sundog.tiac.net>,
Gary D. Duzan <gary@wheel.tiac.net> wrote:
>   You didn't mention which Unix in particular you are using recent
>versions of NetBSD, at least, do exactly what you want, marking file
>systems clean when unmounted normally and not checking them on boot.

To be more precise, NetBSD 1.1 does a `fastboot' shutdown by default,
and NetBSD 1.0 and previous versions do not.

cjs
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