On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 04:09:30PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > i use debian 3.0, filesystem is ext3. > > i realize that it checks the partitition after mounting it for 20 times, > checking is forced. > > now, is there a way in which i can change it to, say 50 times or say, > once in n days, etc? Try tune2fs. Its man page goes into more detail. -- Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]