Interrupting fsck during startup

[Mark Komarinski]

Sorry for top posting, I'm only on my blackberry and it sucks for writing e-mail, but I had to chime in.

ext3 has two cases where it will fsck at boot time - number of times it's been mounted since the last fsck and/or a time interval.  Both of these are low by default, but you can change both using tune2fs

tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/sda1

I do it by habit after creating a filesystem by hand but creation at OS install time probably still has the limits in place.

After that, no fscks should take place as journals will replay in the event of a bad shutdown, and that is almost instantaneous.

If you choose, you can toss in a -m 2 to have 2% reserved for root instead of the default 5%.

-Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Buskey <tom at buskey.name>

Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:52:57 
To: GNHLUG<gnhlug-discuss at mail.gnhlug.org>
Subject: Re: Interrupting fsck during startup


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