aarrrgh!! I'm the one with the netbook!! The default didn't work. Checking fs every boot does. Extra reboot time amounts to a few secs vs not booting at all, dammit!
On 11/30/09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday 30 November 2009 05:40:31 Maxim Wexler wrote: >> > Right. >> >> wrong >> >> > Of course, if there are serious filesystem structural problems you'll >> > want to get them solved, but it's either a LiveCD chroot or disable >> > fsck at boot. >> >> There's nothing wrong with the filesystem. It's ext2 and requires >> being checked at every boot. > > Wrong. There is no need to fsck ext2 at every boot. The default is to check > it > every 26 mounts. You can change that if you want, and send your reboot times > sky-high.. > >> Before that it wouldn't boot at all. > > That would appear to be a completely separate issue. > > -- > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com > >
