> 
> I'm not sure if this is a problem or not but for some reason whenever I
> start up X11R6 using startx the kernal starts to perform fsck.  I know that
> this is generally a bad thing because I've read lots of books that say you
> should only run fsck when in read-only mode (single-user mode).  I'm not
> sure if this applies to the kernal launching it or just to doing a manual
> fsck.  I've only had it happen twice and have gotten spooked so have
> decided to do without X.  Someone please let me know.  I'm running a Mac
> IIsi 17MB RAM.  The disk that is being used for NetBSD 1.2 is an external
> set to SCSI ID 1.  I have a NUBUS Adapter card that had a 68882 coprocessor
> on it.

??? How do you know it performs an fsck? The drive clicks a lot? Or it
starts spewing fsck messages? I've NEVER seen the computer just start
an fsck of its own initiative once you're in multi-user.

You are very right that it's bad to fsck a mounted partition.

Take care,

Bill