Schedule a disk check

[Fred Roller]

christopher.lemire at gmail.com wrote:
> In windows, if I right click a drive, go to properties and tell it to 
> do a disk check, it will tell me it can't disk check an active hard 
> drive. Then it asks me if I'd like to schedule a disk check the next 
> time Windows boots. How can I do the same with Ubuntu?
>
> Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
> Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0
Ubuntu checks its journals (journaled file systems like ext3,4 etc) 
every boot and does a disk check about every 18 or so boots.  Though I 
don't recall where the file is right off this number can be increased or 
decreased as you like and it affects partitions more so than whole disks 
(I have four partitions across two disks) on a laptop and so my constant 
restarts, as compared to a desktop or server, brings this check to the 
fore more often.

Apologies for not being more technically explicit, but this is just my 
observance from my own system.

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Fred
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"Life is like linux, simple.  If you are fighting it you are doing something wrong."