>> > 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.
Exactly. In fact, we had a lab computer running a 2.2 kernel and it was failing fsck and wouldn't boot, so I just turned off the fsck at boot. Hey, the filesystem could be corrupted, but it boots! ~daid
