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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!agis.ag.net!usenet 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 Organization: Access Global Information Services Lines: 21 Message-ID: <4cifof$34g@agis.ag.net> References: <4cfdum$oqo@picasso.op.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp8.ag.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.92.6 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 >root@candle.pha.pa.us | Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026 > + If your life is a hard drive, | (610) 353-9879(w) > + Christ can be your backup. | (610) 853-3000(h) In the /etc/rc file, its written to do a fsck on reboot. Either edit it out, or fastboot instead!