Hard disk check on boot up
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every so often (after each 100 boots i think) mepis does a hard disk check upon boot up. Can someone tell me how to change the number of boots it does before a check and also how to turn it off altogether.
my fstab reads like
Submitted by roadrash on Fri, 05/04/2007 - 14:51.
Posts: 171
Posts: 171
my fstab reads like this
Quote:
/dev/hda8 / auto defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/hda7 swap swap sw,pri=1 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devmode=0666 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
# Dynamic entries below
/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mnt/hda5 ntfs-3g noauto,users 0 0
/dev/hda6 /mnt/hda6 vfat,ext3,ext2,reiserfs noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/hdb1 ntfs-3g noauto,users 0 0
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom udf,iso9660 noauto,users,exec,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy vfat,ext2 noauto,users,exec,rw 0 0
and the man page for tune2fs mentions that parameters for the disk check should be changed in e2fsk.
where is this parameter? its not in fstab
Look in /etc/fstab for
Posts: 4077
Look in /etc/fstab for something like this:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 1
change it to:
/dev/hda1 / ext3 defaults,noatime 1 0
I think this should solve the issue.
Another way is to use "tune2fs" see man page.
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