Re: skip fsck when booting on battery?
On 06/02/11 19:48, Steven wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Earlier today at fosdem, I was booting my laptop and it started a
> routine file system check ("booted 28 times without being checked, check
> forced"). Obviously I don't want the laptop doing that check when it's
> on battery power, especially since it has an aging battery.
>
> How do I turn I fix this, or is this a bug?
> The laptop is an Acer Aspire 7720G running Debian Squeeze.
>
> I do notice that the laptop seems to 'think' it was still on AC power
> until later in the boot sequence, due to the brightness setting. I think
> it keeps the previous AC/battery state from last boot, and only checks
> again quite late in the boot process.
>
> Any ideas are welcome.
>
> Kind regards,
> Steven
>
>
tibz@ice ~ $ apropos tune2fs
tune2fs (8) - adjust tunable filesystem parameters on ext2/ext3/ext4
filesystems
tibz@ice ~ $ man 8 tune2fs
Particularly you are interested in the -c and -i switches. This is
assuming of course that the partition being checked is an ext2/3/4.
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elbbit
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