Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-27 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sat February 27 2010, Andrei Popescu wrote: > It would be wise to do your own regular checks though. The simplest way > is to 'touch /forcefsck' and reboot. I rarely reboot, except for new kernels, or yearly vacations.. is 6 months too long? Filesystem created: Mon Sep 17 06:06:03 2007 L

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,27.Feb.10, 13:32:15, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Ah great, thank you. I think it was still set to check after 27 mounts > or something. I had a read of the man page, and I think I have enabled > what I want now. It would be wise to do your own regular checks though. The simplest way is to 'to

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:01:18PM -0300, Xavier Petit de Meurville wrote: >Hi, what is your filesystem on this partition ? >I don't very well, but maybe you can see the tune2fs command, Ah great, thank you. I think it was still set to check after 27 mounts or something. I had a read of th

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Kelly Harding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I used to find it annoying, though it was a problem that went away when I switched to using XFS as my default filesystem, it doesn't need to do the fsck on boot, so it is much quicker booting in that regard. I do use ext2/3 for /boot and /var mind, bu

Re: stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Xavier Petit de Meurville
Hi, what is your filesystem on this partition ? I don't very well, but maybe you can see the tune2fs command, for example (for ext2/3/4) list the current values of your filesystem : ~]# tune2fs -l /dev/sda6 Last checked: Fri Feb 5 11:48:41 2010 Check interval: 15552000 (6 m

stop automatic checkdisk on boot

2010-02-26 Thread Daniel Dalton
Every 20 odd boots my system does a checkdisk scan of sda5 (root file system) and sda7 /home. As it's a laptop and I need fast booting, how can I stop these checks all together? I tried setting the 6th field of fstab to 0 for both partitions. I thought it was working, but it seemed to do one check