Yes, you can trigger it early. You use the tune2fs command. From
memory you would put: sudo tune2fs -c(the number of boots you want
before it checks) (the HD of the linux install /dev/). You can
confirm by looking at the tune2fs man page.
*** Make sure that you put it back to 30 boots, or w
Thank you for looking into this. Any way to trigger the scan before the
next 30 boots? It is my mother's notebook, so I might not be around the
next time it happens.
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Silent disk scan on boot - computer seems to hang
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/404874
You received this bug notification beca
I was unable to confirm that a hang is caused by the scan disk feature
using a fresh install of Jaunty in VirtualBox. When the disk scan ran
it indicated that it was running and gave an option to escape the scan.
Has the hang happened again or only the one time? If it does happen
again, once Ubu
There seems to be a quiet option for most menu items. I'll attach the
whole file.
The notebook went through several Ubuntu versions, usually via the
update functionality (I don't remember when I last installed it from
scratch).
I have never manually edited the boot options.
** Attachment added:
Thank you for submitting this bug report. Could you check your
/boot/grub/menu.lst file to see if the --quiet option is enabled for
your OS. If you dont know how to check this could you post the result
to this command in the terminal: cat /boot/grub/menu.lst
** Package changed: ubuntu => usplash