I'm going to add an anecdote to this thread why running fsck (at least in textmode) at startup is bad. Some good friends of mine use ubuntu on their HTPC. The connected HDTV can't display the text mode under which the fsck runs, this results in a blue screen during the whole operation. As these folks aren't any computer whizzes they belive the computer has hanged itself as no plausible explanation is given from the computer. Efter a brief explanation from me this, of course, is no problem, but I'm sure these people aren't the only one with a similar experience. Regards, Erik Andrén <div>2007/10/17, Phillip Susi <<a href="mailto:psusi@cfl.rr.com">psusi@cfl.rr.com</a>>:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Onno Benschop wrote: > I am subscribed to the list, there is no need to send this to me directly. Fair enough. I will remove you for now, but if you wish to not get such replies regularly, you should set your Reply-To: header to point to the mailing list. > I have personal experience where "a modern journalling file system" > (ext3) does *not* maintain integrity. I have now had three cases where > the journal corrupted for no particular reason, causing the kernel to > remount my drive read-only. A read-only and non-destructive read-write > test failed to uncover any problems. > > My point was, and it still stands, "theoretically a file-system > maintains its integrity, in practice it cannot". > > fsck is the tool that catches the difference between theory and practice. It sounds like in your case it was the running kernel that noticed the problem ( which in all likelihood was simply an IO error that happened while the kernel tried to update the journal ), not the auto fsck at 30 mounts. In any case, such errors occur only for the VAST minority of users, so why should everyone be penalized? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list <a href="mailto:Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss </a> </blockquote></div>