Adam Borowski writes ("Bug#408954: checkroot.sh: should not skip running fsck with JFS root"): > Running fsck at boot is useless and harmful for any modern filesystem. > Sure, for ext2 it was needed to at least somewhat reduce data loss you just > suffered, but anything newer is crash safe.
I still make ext2 filesystems in new installs... If ext3+ checks are harmful at boot then this should be done in the filesystem specific check utility by making the preen function into a noop, surely ? Ian.