From 90104f5413ef34d793f299752aef4770fe2a7bfc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kirk McKusick Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:33:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Note that foreground fsck should be run after a filesystem related panic. Suggested by: Mikhail Teterin (mi@) MFC after: 1 week --- sbin/fsck/fsck.8 | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) diff --git a/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 b/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 index a4f6d4b0cca..c7cb0a5999b 100644 --- a/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 +++ b/sbin/fsck/fsck.8 @@ -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