fsck and system crashes

[William Anderson]

Daniel Robitaille wrote:
>>It's called journaling filesystem.  Mandrake should also use one by
>>default.  Shouldn't be any reason to run fsck unless something REALLY
>>bad has happened.
> 
> actually noticed the other day that Ubuntu did do a fsck after my 30th reboot.
> On my 30gb it didn't take that long so I didn't really care, and
> actually think it would be a good idea to do automatically after a
> unclean shutdown just to be on the safe side of things.

# tune2fs -c 0 -i 0
should sort that out - sets the maximum mount count and interval between 
checks to zero (off) for automatic fscking.

Note that the man page states:

"It  is  strongly  recommended that either -c (mount-count-dependent) or -i 
(time-dependent) checking be enabled to force periodic full e2fsck(8) 
checking of the filesystem.  Failure to do so may lead to filesystem 
corruption due to bad  disks, cables, memory, or kernel bugs to go unnoticed 
until they cause data loss or corruption."

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