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From: sunquest!whm@uunet.uu.net (Bill Mitchell)
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Subject: Re: fsck doesn't check all filesystems
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Date: 15 Feb 89 22:03:00 GMT
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jdh@bu-it.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler) writes:

> Has anyone noticed that fsck sometimes only checks the root partition
> (xy0a) when you boot multi-user ?  This has gotten me into trouble, when
> we starting using filesystems that weren't clean.

I've seen something similar: Just after we brought up 4.0 an fsck -p
didn't check a couple of the filesystems it was supposed to.  As I recall,
we verified that the associated /etc/fstab entries indicated that the
filesystems should be checked.  We tried to reproduce the bug, but
couldn't.  We recounted this to Sun and after a day they got back to us
and suggested that we check the /etc/fstab entries...  We asked if they'd
file it as a suspected bug, but they refused.

Has anyone else ever seen this?

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