Re: another hint for fsck for large filesystems

2010-01-08 Thread Alexander Hall
Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: > --- On Wed, 1/6/10, Alexander Hall wrote: >> You should be able to get the same result using proper values for >> fs_passno in /etc/fstab. > > One would hope so, but I don't think that's the case. > > First, the man page says > > the root filesystem should be specified

Re: another hint for fsck for large filesystems

2010-01-08 Thread Bohdan Tashchuk
--- On Wed, 1/6/10, Alexander Hall wrote: > You should be able to get the same result > using proper values for fs_passno in /etc/fstab. One would hope so, but I don't think that's the case. First, the man page says the root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other

Re: another hint for fsck for large filesystems

2010-01-06 Thread Alexander Hall
Bohdan Tashchuk wrote: > Sorry I'm not subscribed to the misc@ list, I read on a web archive. > So I can't reply directly to the recent discussion about how to do > newfs / fsck etc on large file systems (memory issue). > > I have one box with relatively limited memory and had to make a > change d

another hint for fsck for large filesystems

2010-01-05 Thread Bohdan Tashchuk
Sorry I'm not subscribed to the misc@ list, I read on a web archive. So I can't reply directly to the recent discussion about how to do newfs / fsck etc on large file systems (memory issue). I have one box with relatively limited memory and had to make a change directly to /etc/rc (yes, horrors