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author | mpp <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-02-11 09:02:48 +0000 |
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committer | mpp <mpp@FreeBSD.org> | 2008-02-11 09:02:48 +0000 |
commit | 84c4c89cc36cbb3d064ae4d21e0055a7356d52ff (patch) | |
tree | f06f848254934a35f0cc6b972464d16d84854139 | |
parent | 4660b94ec6972893ed48ed6daf4c5f6ec0e236c7 (diff) | |
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Explain in more detail how the pass number field works. Bump .Dd.
-rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/fstab.5 | 32 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 b/share/man/man5/fstab.5 index a46085b..aea1623 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/fstab.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/fstab.5 @@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ .\" @(#)fstab.5 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93 .\" $FreeBSD$ .\" -.Dd June 5, 1993 +.Dd February 11, 2008 .Dt FSTAB 5 .Os .Sh NAME @@ -207,9 +207,16 @@ another file system is processed, and it will be processed before all file systems with a larger .Fa fs_passno . .Pp -File systems within a drive will be checked sequentially, +For any given value of +.Fa fs_passno , +file systems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but file systems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. +Once all file system checks are complete for the current +.Fa fs_passno , +the same process will start over for the next +.Fa fs_passno . +.Pp If the sixth field is not present or is zero, a value of zero is returned and .Xr fsck 8 @@ -224,6 +231,27 @@ the system utilities may determine that the file system resides on a different physical device, when it actually does not, as with a .Xr ccd 4 device. +All file systems with a lower +.Fa fs_passno +value will be completed before starting on file systems with a +higher +.Fa fs_passno +value. +E.g. all file systems with a +.Fa fs_passno +of 2 will be completed before any file systems with a +.Fa fs_passno +of 3 or greater are started. +Gaps are allowed between the different +.Fa fs_passno +values. +E.g. file systems listed in +.Pa /etc/fstab +may have +.Fa fs_passno +values such as 0, 1, 2, 15, 100, 200, 300, and may appear in any order +within +.Pa /etc/fstab . .Bd -literal #define FSTAB_RW "rw" /* read/write device */ #define FSTAB_RQ "rq" /* read/write with quotas */ |