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authormckusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>2010-07-22 18:33:10 +0000
committermckusick <mckusick@FreeBSD.org>2010-07-22 18:33:10 +0000
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Note that foreground fsck should be run after a filesystem related panic.
Suggested by: Mikhail Teterin (mi@) MFC after: 1 week
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diff --git a/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 b/sbin/fsck/fsck.8
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@@ -169,6 +169,17 @@ so the check program is invoked with the
flag to indicate that a check on the active file system should be done.
When running in background mode,
only one file system at a time will be checked.
+Note that background
+.Nm
+is limited to checking for only the most commonly occuring
+file system abnormalities.
+Under certain circumstances,
+some errors can escape background
+.Nm .
+It is recommended that you perform foreground
+.Nm
+on your systems periodically and whenever you encounter
+file-system\-related panics.
.It Fl t Ar fstype
Invoke
.Nm
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