Schedule a disk check

[Colin Law]

On 18 March 2010 03:09, Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln at mnsi.net> wrote:
>  (yeah I'm top posting)

Why, I wonder, rhetorically.

>  Oddly enough my 9.04 laptop install checks the Linux file systems each
> boot, even when I shut it down correctly, so it's not really a waste of
> time, it's just wasting time doing it each boot.

Does it say it is doing a routine check?  If so you should be able to
change this using tune2fs.  If it is not 'routine' then there must be
some other reason for doing it.  If it were my system I would be
concerned by this.

Colin