Re: unchecked 31 times

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Nick Welch <mack@incise.org> writes:

> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically.  Easy to
> disable the periodic checks, though:
>
> tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda6

That's a very bad idea.  As the manpage says:

    You should strongly consider the consequences of disabling
    mount-count-dependent checking entirely.  Bad disk drives, cables,
    memory, and kernel bugs could all corrupt a filesystem without
    marking the filesystem dirty or in error.  If you are using
    journaling on your filesystem, your filesystem will never be
    marked dirty, so it will not normally be checked.  A filesystem
    error detected by the kernel will still force an fsck on the next
    reboot, but it may already be too late to prevent data loss at
    that point.

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