Re: Partition size
Once upon a time Pigeon said...
> On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 10:16:11 +0000, Chris Lale
> <ctlale@coolscience.co.uk> 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.
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