[wplug] fsck running in background?

Michael E Uhl meu102 at comcast.net
Tue Sep 21 20:36:47 EDT 2004


Many systems are set up so that fsck is run after every Nth time that a
volume is mounted.

-michael

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 16:14, John Harrold wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> I was trying to access a drive that I auto mount (/dev/hdc1) but when I
> tried to access the mount point the terminal just sort of hung there. I
> connected through another terminal and noticed that fsck was running.
> Also, using 'ps' I could see that fsck was running on the partition that I
> was trying to access. I don't remember starting fsck, so I can only guess
> that a cron job or something is running this. Can anyone tell me what might
> be causing this? I'm running Debian Sarge.
-- 
Michael Edward Uhl
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