initscripts: 14 minute wait to fsck during boot is too long

Tue Nov 7 20:59:34 UTC 2006

On 11/7/06, R Kimber <rkimber at ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2006 13:40:32 -0600
> Jayson Vaughn wrote:
>
> > Is it just one partion i.e. 60gig "/" partition?  If so 14 minutes
> > for 60 gig sounds about right.
>
> Really?  My 300G disk doesn't seem to take that long, I'm sure (though
> I've never actually timed it).
>
> - Richard

I have a 10GB ext3 partition as /, if it took me minutes each boot to
actually fsck it, I'd have dropped the filesystem without a doubt. I'm
pretty sure that time isn't right.

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