On Fri, 2008-06-13 at 18:32 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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. 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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