On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 12:47:52AM +0100, Steven wrote: . . . > > @ elbbit: The file system is ext3, however I wouldn't turn of the > automatic routine checks entirely. > I think I'll just leave it as it is and see if Ctrl+C does the trick, > when I'm at home I'll just let it finish, it doesn't take that long, and > use my desktop instead (now _that_ takes long, checking multiple 1TB > disks). >
In the name of sucking some more marrow out of that little bone, there is a way to edit file system parameters to near insignificance at boot checks without severely reducing effectiveness. With a strategy of multiple partitions facilitating staggered backups, security, disk checks and whatever, varying check intervals can be assigned to each partition according to priority. So given /boot, /srv, /, /home, /usr, /usr/share, and /var, all assigned to different partitions in a rambling /etc/fstab, Where checking /srv is the highest priority and /boot, the least priority, Figure the desired boot interval for checking /srv and assign the closest prime number, say 29, tune2fs -c 29 /dev/designation_for_/srv_partition Work up the list of prime numbers respectively. Now, checking /boot (250M ?), will take a second or so every 53 boots. Even /srv or /home (7-10G ?) would be way less trouble than the entire drive. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110207014055.GA12118@Europa.office
