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

[Tom H]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:15 PM, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Aug 2010, Robert Swanson wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the tips.  I went into /etc/fstab and adjusted the numbers at the
>> end of each line that I wanted to edit from 0  2 to 0  0
>
> Therein lies the problem, it needs to "dump" the FS, so that  0  2 should
> have been 1  1 if its /  , and 1  2  for any otehr mounted partition, try
> it :)

The dump field in fstab is for "dump -w" to check /etc/dumpdates for
filesystems that haven't been dumped in the last day (if the frequency
if 1).