On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:26, Matt Foster wrote: > > I completly agree with what you're saying, but if you're on the move, > few things are more irritating than having to wait ten minutes for your > system to start-up. If you're like me, then you only use your laptop on > battery periodically, and at that point its normally fine to let fsck > run its course. > > Regardless of fs type(ext2 or 3, that is), fsck is run at startup, and > on my system the file system gets checked every 20something mounts > regardless. Maybe I'm missing something. >
An ext3 fs should not really run fsck, it looks at the journals to make sure everything is order and moves on. A minute or so, tops.
