On September 7, 2003 14:40, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > 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.
But it does by default. Apparently some configuration option has to be changed, but I have no idea which one :-(. Could you explain in more detail what you've said above? Thanks, Slaven
