Once upon a time Pigeon said... > On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:16:11 +0000, Chris Lale > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >One of my partitions is 8Gb and I have noticed exactly this behaviour. > >It also takes aeons to mount during boot. Do you think I should convert > >all my partions to ext3, or just the 8Gb one? > > So, the slow _mount_ as opposed to the slow fsck is probably not a > feature of ext2fs but of the version of mount concerned. Well, it > looks like that.
To make large ext2 (and probably ext3) partitions mount faster, add the option "check=none" to your fstab. It is safe to do so (see mount(8)) and makes large partitions mount quickly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
