HD activity in 10.04

[Colin Law]

On 25 January 2011 18:53, MR ZenWiz <mrzenwiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au> wrote:
>>
>> So solly, Mr ZenWiz, Sir, but my Maverick installation (and my wife's)
>> regularly goes on a Checking HDs expedition and it ain't every 6 months :-)
>
> I've seen only one since I installed maverick on my desktop back in October.

Perhaps you do not reboot very often

>
>> Perchance you fiddled with that file I mentioned ( the name of which I know
>> not)?
>>
> I don't think so - I don't usually fiddle with system files.  Given
> that neither of us knows the name of said file, I couldn't say for
> sure, but I doubt it.

The count or re-boots between scans can be set by using something like
sudo tune2fs -c 50 /dev/sda1
to set it to 50
sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1
will display it and other stuff.

Colin