why fsck

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Mon, March 1, 2010 17:05, Nils Kassube wrote:

> OTOH, I have never seen file system errors unless there was a dirty
> shutdown. Therefore I'm not convinced the check frequency is useful. And
> I don't use the mount count because I sometimes boot my machines several
> times a day. Instead I use the mount interval and I set it to at least 4
> weeks.

In one of my previous messages I posted a link to a script that does an
fsck ONLY when the fs is marked as dirty. Check it out.