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Subject: manual page for Chris Torek's "preen" program
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Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 15:17:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 19 15:17:19 1985
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#! /bin/sh
: This is a shar archive.  Extract with sh, not csh.
echo x - preen.8
cat > preen.8 << '11668!Funky!Stuff!'
.TH PREEN 8
.SH NAME
preen \- run fsck in parallel
.SH SYNOPSIS
/etc/preen
.SH DESCRIPTION
.I Preen
has the same effect as /etc/fsck \-p, except that it can be much faster.
This is because 
.I preen
tries to keep all the disk drives busy, whereas
.I fsck
tends to leave them idle more than it should.
.PP
.I Preen
first checks the root partition, then attempts to keep one instance of
.I fsck
running on each disk drive, until the filesystems have all been checked.
.SH FILES
.br
.ns
.TP 21
/etc/fstab
contains default list of file systems to check.
.TP 21
/etc/fsck
program to check the disks
.SH DIAGNOSTICS
The exit status returned by
.I preen
is coded the same way as the status returned by fsck \-p, and so can
be used in the /etc/rc script for automatic rebooting.
.SH AUTHOR
Chris Torek (chris@umcp-cs)
.SH SEE ALSO
fsck(8)
.SH BUGS
11668!Funky!Stuff!


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