CompuServe Messages

Steve, no…as a mater of fact…it seemed to boot rather fast. I don't recall it doing an fsck on bootup. Our AT&T machines also don't run fsck unless the filesystem valid flag isn't set. You can't do multiple fsck's in the background since root has to be valid, and mounted for the machine to boot…and /usr must also be mounted and valid to enter run level 2. Thus, you must first validate root, reboot if it required modification, and mount it…then check and mount /usr (presuming you're going to fsck all filesystems). I would guess the others (if any) could be checked and mounted from that point on in the background…but at least root and /usr must be done separately. Oh…I forgot…there is a file on one of our machines…I forget its name (something like /etc/checklist ) that on boot up is read, and if any filesystems are in it…they will be checked whether the valid flag is set or not. Don