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From: root@ag.net (Paul)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.misc
Subject: Re: Not doing fsck on reboot
Date: 5 Jan 1996 06:16:47 GMT
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In article <4cfdum$oqo@picasso.op.net>, root@candle.pha.pa.us (Bruce Momjian) says:
>
>If my unix machine was brought down cleanly, I don't understand why an
>fsck is performed upon reboot.
>
>Under System V, as I remember, there is a flag that gets written to the
>disk just before shutdown that says "I was cleanly unmounted", and then
>upon reboot, no fsck is performed.
>
>Under BSDI 2.0.1 and I assume BSD 4.3&4, it always does an fsck of all
>drives upon reboot.
>
>Is there a reason for this to be performed during each reboot?
>
>-- 
>Bruce Momjian                          |  830 Blythe Avenue
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 In the /etc/rc file, its written to do a fsck on reboot. Either 
edit it out, or fastboot instead!