Actually there is something conclusive in this discussion: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel- discuss/2007-December/002764.html
"To try to answer the question of whether we could simply disable the periodic fsck, I decided to ask Mingming Cao, one of the developers who has worked on ext3 and later, ext4. I just got the following: "Periodically fsck ext3 is still needed, even if ext3 is a journalled fs. kernel code vm/fs could be buggy, or disks IO errors, which cause filesystem metadata corrupted silently, this can't be detected by simply replaying the journal log. [....]" That must go doubly for removable disks, due to more likely unclean removal and additional risk of hardware issues (disks being carried around, etc.) And here Martin Pitt mentions a UDS decision about how to deal with fsck for fixed disks: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel- discuss/2007-December/002753.html -- ext 3 filesystems are never fsck'ed if they live on removable USB disks https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/85291 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug contact for gnome-volume-manager in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
