On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 11:17:42 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 16:55 GMT, Alan Shutko penned: >> Nick Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> I suppose mke2fs(8) is where that comes from specifically. Easy to >>> disable the periodic checks, though: >>> >>> tune2fs -i 0 -c 0 /dev/hda6 >> >> That's a very bad idea. As the manpage says: >> >> You should strongly consider the consequences of disabling >> mount-count-dependent checking entirely. Bad disk drives, cables, >> memory, and kernel bugs could all corrupt a filesystem without >> marking the filesystem dirty or in error. If you are using >> journaling on your filesystem, your filesystem will never be >> marked dirty, so it will not normally be checked. A filesystem >> error detected by the kernel will still force an fsck on the next >> reboot, but it may already be too late to prevent data loss at >> that point. >> > > Wait, wait; I'm confused. I thought one of the perks of running a > journalling file system was that you can speed up the boot process by > disabling boot-time fsck?
He didn't say he was running ext3. If he is, you're right. I tested ext3 when I moved to it by powering down my machine when several writes were going on. I never did break it. To be fair, I did the same kind of testing on WinXP's NTFS, and I didn't break that either. -- ....................paul "The average lifespan of a Web page today is 100 days. This is no way to run a culture." Internet Archive Board Chairman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]