is it ok to disable the complete fsck for every startup?

Robert Swanson mapa-kettle at shaw.ca
Tue Aug 10 05:26:36 UTC 2010


On Monday 09 August 2010 19:55, Goh Lip wrote:
> On Tuesday 10,August,2010 07:30 AM, Robert Swanson wrote:
> > 	I am still running 6.06 on one of my machines, and I want to know if it
> > is wise not to do the complete system check on every startup.
> > 	If it is reasonable not to do the check, how do I disable it in init.d
> > Thanks
> > Bob
>
> For ext3/ext4, default is every 30 boots
> for btrfs, not necessary. but see below...
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=163500
> http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubuntu-help/88818-disabling-fsck-startup.h
>tml http://dannyman.toldme.com/2008/11/19/e2fsck-frog-off/
>
> Regards - Goh Lip

	Thanks for the links.  I forgot to add that I am running Reiserfs from my 
previous installation ( Gentoo ).
Bob




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