Re: skipping forced fscks

[Bob Hilliard <hilliard@flinet.com>]

aphro <nate@firetrail.com> writes:

> 
> I am about to shutdown this machine which has 221 days of uptime and want
> to avoid the 'file system has gone too long without check, check forced'
> message upon reboot, whats the best way to go about doing it? is it even
> possible ? 
> 
> also does anyone see any problem(serious) with running a 2.0.36 SMP kernel
> on a k6-3 ? i figure it should work as the older kernels were pretty
> generic, (i plan to test too of course), i am going to move the hdds out
> of this machine to another temporary machine while i transplant the
> hardware into a rack mount system - minimal downtime .. i bet it wouldnt
> work on a 2.2.x kernel but i figure it should on 2.0 ..i can always
> recompile if it doesnt ..
> 
> nate


     You can change the max-mount-count and the
interval-between-checks with tune2fs from the e2fsprogs package.
  
Bob
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