On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned: > Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy to >> disable the periodic checks, though: >> >> tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda6 > > That's a very bad idea. As the manpage says: > > You should strongly consider the consequences of disabling > mount-count-dependent checking entirely. Bad disk drives, cables, > memory, and kernel bugs could all corrupt a filesystem without > marking the filesystem dirty or in error. If you are using > journaling on your filesystem, your filesystem will never be > marked dirty, so it will not normally be checked. A filesystem > error detected by the kernel will still force an fsck on the next > reboot, but it may already be too late to prevent data loss at > that point. >
Wait, wait; I'm confused. I thought one of the perks of running a journalling file system was that you can speed up the boot process by disabling boot-time fsck? -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
