Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly
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On 2008-06-13 17:11, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> David wrote:
>
>> Every X days or Y reboots, Linux (on my home PC, which I boot & shut
>> down 2x each day) wants to scan partitions for errors at startup.
>> While this is a bit annoying (can't use the PC for 10-20 minutes), I
>> usually let it finish and read a book while waiting.
[...]
> Now a days, the only time I do a complete reboot of my laptop is when I had
> upgraded the kernel (due to a security upgrade).
In other words, you usually bypass fsck'ing. With respect to fsck it is
about the same as setting the maximum mount count to something close to
infinity.
Johannes
NB: On the other hand, with a journalling FS fsck is probably not as
important as it used to be...
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