Re: Switched from ext2 to ext3...no fsck needed after crash?

[Pigeon <jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk>]

On Sat, Apr 26, 2003 at 02:13:31PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 09:46:49 -0700
> Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> > The system will periodically fsck at mount when it hits so many days
> > without checking (usually around a month) or after so many remounts,
> > even on normal boots.  This is normal, even journaled filesystems need
> > to be checked for consistancy over time.
> 
> This happens for the root filesystem. Do you know how to make it happen
> automagically for other filesystems (such as /home)?

Enter a value of 2 in the pass field in /etc/fstab... like for /dev/hda4 in
this example:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system>	<mount point>	<type>	<options>		<dump>	<pass>
/dev/hda3	/		ext2	errors=remount-ro	0	1
/dev/hda2	none		swap	sw			0	0
/dev/hda4       /usr            ext2    defaults                0       2
proc		/proc		proc	defaults		0	0
/dev/fd0	/floppy		auto	user,noauto		0	0
/dev/cdrom	/cdrom		iso9660	ro,user,noauto		0	0

Pigeon