Re: how does debian know how many times it has been rebooted? (was disable dosfsck)

Michael Schiansky wrote: Hi Ben! First of all, please fix your mailheader. Writing to public mls without your realname in 'From' is most of the time a good reason to prevent others from replying. Noted. Usually I use ben<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> as my from address (which probably isn't that good anyway)

Re: how does debian know how many times it has been rebooted? (was disable dosfsck)

Hi Ben, it is the filesystem which keeps track of this information (not every filesystem supports this information, but ext2/ext3 does). For example when I do on my system (where /dev/hda1 is one partition with ext2/ext3 file system) dumpe2fs /dev/hda1 I get a long list of information, among

Re: how does debian know how many times it has been rebooted? (was disable dosfsck)

Hi Ben! First of all, please fix your mailheader. Writing to public mls without your realname in 'From' is most of the time a good reason to prevent others from replying. On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 10:48:05PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I presume that there is a script somewhere in my init.d t

how does debian know how many times it has been rebooted? (was disable dosfsck)

Hi All, Well my subject just about says it all and I know its not really laptop specific but.. I presume that there is a script somewhere in my init.d that checks how many times each partition has been mounted and when that number is reached does a fsck.. is this correct? can anyone tell me wh

Re: disable dosfsck

Michael Schiansky wrote: On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:40:38PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply, for some reason I don't seem to be getting mail from the list, which is odd as all the spam sent to my debian address still gets through...! CCed you for this reason. #

Re: Re: disable dosfsck?

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 03:40:38PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks for the reply, for some reason I don't seem to be getting mail > from the list, which is odd as all the spam sent to my debian address > still gets through...! CCed you for this reason. > # > /dev/hda1

Re: Re: disable dosfsck?

Hello Michelle, Thanks for the reply, for some reason I don't seem to be getting mail from the list, which is odd as all the spam sent to my debian address still gets through...! I'll give those suggestions a go, but being the relative newbie that I am (I have only been using linux for a couple

Re: disable dosfsck?

Am 2005-01-25 09:16:04, schrieb Ben: > Hi All, > > I have a laptop with fat32 partitions on it, is there any way I can set > dosfsck to only check the dos partitions every x mounts as it does on my > other partitions? No you can't. But you can disable the fsck completly from the /etc/fstab and

Re: disable dosfsck?

Adam Porter wrote: Have you tried "man fsck" or "man shutdown"? I'm a newbie myself, so I don't know the answer; sorry. Adam cheers adam, yup been through those, man shutdown says use -F switch.. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: disable dosfsck?

Have you tried "man fsck" or "man shutdown"? I'm a newbie myself, so I don't know the answer; sorry. Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

disable dosfsck?

Hi All, I have a laptop with fat32 partitions on it, is there any way I can set dosfsck to only check the dos partitions every x mounts as it does on my other partitions? on another topic.. I have an old laptop that I use as a router, I am running knoppix on it which i think is based on debian.