Re: unchecked 31 times

["Monique Y. Herman" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>]

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.  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.
> 

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?

-- 
monique