----- Original Message ----- From: "Monique Y. Herman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 13:23 Subject: Re: unchecked 31 times
> On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 19:00 GMT, Paul Morgan penned: > > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:17:42 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > > >> 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? > > > > He didn't say he was running ext3. If he is, you're right. I tested > > ext3 when I moved to it by powering down my machine when several > > writes were going on. I never did break it. > > Is it just ext3, or do all journalling file systems obviate the need for > fsck? IIRC, ext3 is slower than the other options because it has a more > complete journal ... but I may be totally wrong. > > Just to be a pain, I might point out that just because you never broke > it during those tests, doesn't mean that such a test couldn't break it. > > > > > To be fair, I did the same kind of testing on WinXP's NTFS, and I > > didn't break that either. > > > > > -- > monique > My system runs fsck after 37 mounts without a filesystem check. Thanks monique for removing your previous sig. It made me want to CC you. Hoyt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
