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Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly



On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 18:32 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
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> On 2008-06-13 17:11, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> > David wrote:
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> >> 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.
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> [...]
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> > 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.

Since you're not unmounting anything prior to hibernation (everything's
still mounted when you hibernate), it's not like you're setting the
mount/days-since-last-fsck count to something near infinity.  It's more
like you have insanely high uptime.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca

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