Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 20:36 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> On Donnerstag, 17. April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, den 17.04.2008, 17:23 +0200 schrieb Volker Armin Hemmann:
> > > fsck runs with the -p option. -p for prune. But xfs does not now the
> > > -p option
> >
> > Just set fsck to 0 in fstab for xfs volumes.

> no, the thing is, -p for 'automatic check&repair' is just wrong. -a would be
> better. Because -a is understood by a lot more fscks.
>
> -p as prune/automatic repair is only understood by ext2/3 and reiserfsck.
> -a is there for a reason. A good one.

Not using fsck for xfs also has a reason. A good one. From "man
fsck.xfs":

XFS is a journaling filesystem and performs recovery at mount(8) time if
necessary, so fsck.xfs simply exits with a zero exit status.

So whatever option you give to it, it doesn't matter.

Bye...

 Dirk