On Wednesday 13 April 2011 01:45:43 Bill Kenworthy wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an > > > inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the > > > next boot? > > > > Not once it has started, but there are some ways to avoid it running > > in the first place: > > > > Add "fastboot" to your kernel commandline to make it bypass the > > auto-fsck. A grub entry for "skip fsck" might be handy. > > > > Edit /etc/fstab to prevent the auto-fsck from ever running by changing > > the last field to 0. > > > > If it's an ext[123] you can use tune2fs -i 0 to set the auto-check > > interval to never. > > Thats one reason I have been looking at btrfs - online fsck. Has been > solid even on unexpected crashes (I am setting up remote power on/off > and pressed the wrong button - more than once :) I actually had some > minor corruption on reiserfs, but btrfs was fine and could be checked > online anyway in a lot less time than reiserfsck took.
ext4 takes only a second if not less at boot time - depending on the size of the partition of course. -- Regards, Mick
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