Ever want to boot up your Ubuntu Linux system really quick to look something up? Sure, I think we all do that from time to time. Hate it when you get the forced file system check because you’ve booted up 30 times? I do.
Full story »Ever want to boot up your Ubuntu Linux system really quick to look something up? Sure, I think we all do that from time to time. Hate it when you get the forced file system check because you’ve booted up 30 times? I do.
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Rhapsody
16 years 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago
Umm, no?
I like the forced fsck after 30 mounts. It means I don't have to do it. Windows just left me to my own devices on this, with the net result being that my partitions got checked about once every two years. It does need to be properly emphasized that this is only for users who will remember to manually fsck their drives, which I think is a very small minority.
What I'd actually like for my own system is a way to have an auto-fsck every 30 mounts OR 28 days, whichever comes sooner. So then it doesn't matter how often I reboot the system, I know the drives are checked every four weeks.
dave
16 years 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago
You can also do it on shutdown using Autofsck
This is a commonly reported annoyance but it can be resolved by using Autofsck which moves the checks to every 30th shutdown instead of every 30th startup.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoFsck
kuratkull
16 years 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago
I don't this is what he
I don't think this is what he meant. I THINK he meant that even if he reboots once a month, his HD will still be checked. This is true for me, since I often have uptimes ranging around a month, so it will take a long time before I get the automatic checks.
PS! Automatic checks are there for a reason!