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From: ahh@glyph.kingston.ny.us (Andy Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Fast reboot & Disk fragmentation
Keywords: Reboot, fsck, disk fragmentation
Message-ID: <1594@glyph.kingston.ny.us>
Date: 25 Apr 91 02:12:00 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.140925.10180@spool.cs.wisc.edu>
Reply-To: ahh@glyph.UUCP (Andy Heffernan)
Organization: Moji Computing
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In article <1991Apr23.140925.10180@spool.cs.wisc.edu> pb@pipe.cs.wisc.edu (PB Schechter) writes:
[...]
>First, I seem to remember that someone made a simple modification
>(somewhere) so that when shutting the system down normally, a key word
>is written to a key file, so that, upon subsequent rebooting, fsck need
>not be run (greatly speeding up the reboot process).  Rather than
>create this myself, I am hoping that someone will mail (or post, if you
>think there is sufficient interest) what they did to me.

This is Lenny Tropiano's fsokay package.  This is on osu-cis, somewhere
under ~/att7300, as fsokay.cpio.Z.  It involves some magic-cookie stuff
on normal shutdown and startup to avoid unnecessary fsck's, various /etc/rc
cleanups courtesy of Gil, and a safer fsck process when it is truly
needed (like when you hit the reset button).

Highly recommended, but be comfortable with changing system scripts
like /etc/rc and /etc/shutdown.

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