Xubuntu: questions

[Gabriel Dragffy]

On Sun, 2006-08-27 at 19:04 +0200, Luca Manganelli wrote:
> - how to skip the forced media checking? EVERY boot Xubuntu checks my
> FAT partition for errors.
> - there's a light IM client? Gaim is too heavy for my 128MB machine.
> - and a light web browser? I tried Firefox and Opera, but I'm not too
> satisfied with them.
> 
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Hi,
I'm afraid that I *maybe* know the answer to the first of your
questions, the others I also don't have a clue.

For the first one, edit fstab, open up a terminal and run the command
$	sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bk && gksudo gedit /etc/fstab

 
In here find the line that represents the offending VFAT disc. There
will be a string of fields for it and the last two entries will be
numbers. The last entry is what concerns us, if the number is "1" or "2"
then you should change it to zero (0). This should prevent it from being
scanned for errors on boot. I haven't ever needed to test that theory so
I could be wrong. But try it anyway, if it doesn't work then just run
the following:
$	sudo mv /etc/fstab.bk /etc/fstab

On the next reboot all should be back to normal.