On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:33, David Z Maze wrote: > "Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> writes: > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned: > >> 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. > > > > Wait, wait; I'm confused. I thought one of the perks of running a > > journalling file system was that you can speed up the boot process > > by disabling boot-time fsck? > > The relevant perk is that, if the system shuts down abnormally, the > boot-time fsck gets to replay the journal, which is fast, rather than > actually having to go through and do the full check. If you have bad > hardware, no filesystem is going to be completely safe against random > lossage; running periodic full fscks just in case is good practice. > (But turning the check frequency down is almost certainly a practical > thing to do.) I usually have it check based on time since last check... problem is most of my machine stay up for hundreds of days at a time... so it means a full-fsck every boot. If I did number mounts... it could be YEARS, maybe even a decade between checks. -- greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry
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