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| -rw-r--r-- | etc/rc.d/bgfsck | 16 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 | 9 |
2 files changed, 23 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/etc/rc.d/bgfsck b/etc/rc.d/bgfsck index 9f6bc670a822..19ffb714325a 100644 --- a/etc/rc.d/bgfsck +++ b/etc/rc.d/bgfsck @@ -16,11 +16,23 @@ stop_cmd=":" bgfsck_start () { + if [ -z "${rc_force}" ]; then + background_fsck_delay=${background_fsck_delay:=0} + else + background_fsck_delay=0 + fi + if [ ${background_fsck_delay} -lt 0 ]; then + echo "Background file system checks delayed indefinitly" + return 0 + fi + bgfsck_msg='Starting background file system checks' - if [ ${background_fsck_delay:=0} -gt 0 ]; then + if [ "${background_fsck_delay}" -gt 0 ]; then bgfsck_msg="${bgfsck_msg} in ${background_fsck_delay} seconds" fi - echo "${bgfsck_msg}." + if [ -z "${rc_force}" ]; then + echo "${bgfsck_msg}." + fi (sleep ${background_fsck_delay}; nice -4 fsck -B -p) 2>&1 | \ logger -p daemon.notice -t fsck & diff --git a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 index 53b3dcf78b5d..f471b1ac5d6e 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/rc.conf.5 @@ -1384,6 +1384,15 @@ The amount of time in seconds to sleep before starting a background It defaults to sixty seconds to allow large applications such as the X server to start before disk I/O bandwidth is monopolized by .Xr fsck 8 . +If set to a negative number, the background file system check will be +delayed indefinitely to allow the administrator to run it at a more +convenient time. +For example it may be run from cron by adding a line like +.Pp +.Dl 0 4 * * * root /etc/rc.d/bgfsck forcestart +.Pp +to +.Pa /etc/crontab . .It Va netfs_types .Pq Vt str List of file system types that are network-based. |