"Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > > 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?
The relevant perk is that, if the system shuts down abnormally, the boot-time fsck gets to replay the journal, which is fast, rather than actually having to go through and do the full check. If you have bad hardware, no filesystem is going to be completely safe against random lossage; running periodic full fscks just in case is good practice. (But turning the check frequency down is almost certainly a practical thing to do.) -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ "Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal." -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
