On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:59:31PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:
> Hm, isn't the low-tech solution to this particular problem to
> deviate from the comments in fstab(5), and use different pass
> numbers in fstab for the file systems which have different
> devices but actually use the same underlying spindles?

<bofh>
Ingenious idea! Have you tried that?
</bofh>

Yes, that would be a perfectly fine solution if fsck would actually
honour pass numbers != 1 to order them. Sadly enough, it doesn't happen.

Joerg