stopping fsck running at startup

gavyn · 08-26-2007, 10:06 PM

Every now and again when rebooting my computer I get a message
saying something like "disk not checked for 25 times, doing forced check"
and then fsck runs on each of my disks.
Is there a way to stop this happening at bootup or at least do it while I sleep so I don't have to wait forever while all my disks are checked?

thanks

cgjones · 08-26-2007, 10:11 PM

What filesystem are you using?

farslayer · 08-26-2007, 10:24 PM

man tune2fs
http://linux.die.net/man/8/tune2fs

syg00 · 08-26-2007, 10:48 PM

Have a read of this for a bit more depth.

Note the warnings; especially the big red ones ....

gavyn · 08-29-2007, 03:50 AM

Thanks syg00 that link was quite useful,
I changed the last column of my /etc/fstab to 0's and now I'm pretty sure it's stopped making those time consuming checks.

davcefai · 08-29-2007, 01:31 PM

I want to propose a workable compromise.

From the tune2fs man page:

Quote:

-c max-mount-counts
Adjust the number of mounts after which the filesystem will be
checked by e2fsck(8). If max-mount-counts is 0 or -1, the num-
ber of times the filesystem is mounted will be disregarded by
e2fsck(8) and the kernel.

Staggering the mount-counts at which filesystems are forcibly
checked will avoid all filesystems being checked at one time
when using journaled filesystems.

By default max-mount-counts is 30. Set a different one for each partition and the time spent waiting for fsck to complete becomes just about negligible.

It takes me longer to make my coffee than for my PCs to boot!