Hello,

Running Slackware 12 with the ext3 filesystem. Every once in a while it goes through its forced check during startup. And it never fails to do so when I need to get the system booted up in a hurry. Is there a way to bypass this?

I don't know if its recommended or not, but you could always put a 0 in the last column of your /etc/fstab file. If its your / partition, Im gonna guess theres a 1 there, just replace that with a 0 . Putting a 0 there will disable fsck on system startup.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...mounts-594942/

root@600X:/home/al# cat /etc/fstab
/dev/hda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 / reiserfs defaults 1 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto noauto,owner,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/sda5 /mnt/usbhd ext3 noauto,users,rw 0 0

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The 0 0

like the usbhd -- means it never gets (auto or otherwise) checked.

root# e2fsck -f /dev/sda5

The above command is how to take control and manually run a check.

But, regular maintenance dictates for it to be checked every so often.

Better to do like the thread in the url above if you find it a PITA when it does its routine fsck of an ext3 / partition *upon startup of the computer*

power failure could still trigger a fsck on startup but I would not alter or disconnect this protection feature.

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Alan.

Reading the man page on tune2fs can sometimes be useful.

Set the max-mount-counts to zero, and interval-between-checks to zero as well. That will stop fsck from deciding it needs to check a journaled filesystem (which it does not need to do) unless the filesystem fails the consistency check after unraveling the journal.

I'm not about to paste exactly what the command is here because there's plenty of idiots who will run it against the wrong filesystem type, and looking at the man page for the two minutes it takes to figure out based on what I've said won't kill anyone.

Changing the fstab file is definitely not the correct way to go about this.