Re: mount - was: Re: ... gendisk ...

From: Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Date: Mon Jan 17 2000 - 12:21:32 EST


Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> > Might it be possible to do the check in
> > the background, after mounting the disk?
>
> Mount has a -F option that will cause it to fork
> and mount things on different disks simultaneously.
> But if you want checking you'll at least have to wait
> for /usr - most systems do not function without it.

The ideal thing would be to check /usr in the background, possibly after
the rest of the boot process has finished. (Or using low priority
requested, on-off throttling etc.)

And you certainly don't want to be checking /home in the background at
the same time as /usr if they're on the same disk.

Does the check really buy anything or is it ok to turn it off?

-- Jamie

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