--On Friday, June 11, 2004 14:30 +0200 Christian Christmann <plfriko@yahoo.de> wrote:
Hi, I am using Kernel 2.6.5 and Debia Sarge. During the boot process fsck 1.35 is checking my filesystems when they have been mounted couple times. When my linux installation was "fresh" this process took just some seconds. But since I have made some upgrades it now takes very long approx. 5 min (depending on size of partition). Any hints how to solve this problem?
5 minutes is fast for ext2 -- OTOH it's kinda slow for ext3, or any other journalling FS, but what you should really do is just shut your machine down properly then it won't have to fsck at all! Neat concept, and it prevents data loss. Also keeps cranky FSes like XFS from deciding to unmount themselves and do other random garbage.