> > to digress even further, does anyone know how to get fsck to postpone > running until next boot? what happens to me is that i'll be in a hurry > to get at some of the data on my laptop, so i'll turn it on, but > while booting, i'll be unlucky enough to get stuck waiting for > fsck to check one of my partitions. i have no problems w/ running fsck, > but i'd rather be able to postpone it until i have more time ;-) >
once it is fsck'ing, all is over. You could however use tunefs to make fsck run less often. Or consider switching to a journaling fs.
