fsck after every dual boot

Chris Mohler cr33dog at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 19:09:26 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 1:02 PM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On 01/27/2009 10:06 AM, Brian McKee wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:06 AM, NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>> I've one dual-boot system that does an fsck every time I reboot back
>>> into hardy following a WinXP boot/session. Two other identical systems
>>> don't do this, only this one.
>>>
>>> Any clues on where I should start looking?
>>
>> <straw grasping>
>>
>> Is it only after you boot windows?  or is it every time you reboot?
>> (You might only ever reboot to run Windows, thus....)  Does /forcefsck
>> exist?
>>
>> </straw grasping>
>>
>
> Only after I boot Windows. No /forcefsck on that system. Interestingly
> enough, I _do_ have an /forcefsck on this system that has no problems
> dual-booting.

OK - my turn to grasp at straws : is windows mounting your ext2/3 partition(s)?

Chris




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