David wrote: > Every X days or Y reboots, Linux (on my home PC, which I boot & shut > down 2x each day) wants to scan partitions for errors at startup. > While this is a bit annoying (can't use the PC for 10-20 minutes), I > usually let it finish and read a book while waiting.
shutting down 2x times each day seems to be a very inefficient way of using/managing a desktop PC. Use "software suspend" and hibernate the machine whenever you want to power down the machine. Bringing up a machine from an hibernated state is faster than bringing up a machine from a "shutdown -h now" state. Not only that, it also preserves the state of the system. I frequently move across different places (say work, home, lab, etc.,) and everytime I have to change a location, I just hibernate the machine. Then I go to the new location, then restart the machine and continue working from where I left off. This is a really great feature. Once you get used to it, you will think of how you managed without it for such a long time. > > But at other times I want to use the PC quickly for something, and > waiting for fsck to finish isn't an option. Precisely. When you want to show a graph/result/chart to your boss, you can't say "please wait for 10 minutes. My Linux machine is fscking the /dev/hda1 partition!" :-) Just use the hibernate feature. Now a days, the only time I do a complete reboot of my laptop is when I had upgraded the kernel (due to a security upgrade). hth raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
