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If you want to make it so that the FORCED fsck never occurs (which I don't
personally recommend!), you can change your line in /etc/fstab so that the
last two numbers on the line for the root partition read 0 and 0.
Example:
/dev/hda3 / ext2 defaults 1 1
That is the line for my root partition. The numbers 1 and 1 are the
filesystem check count numbers. If you want to make it so that fsck never
runs, make it 0 0... but beware. If your hard drive starts to fail, fsck
won't pick it up and you may lose important data.
- Mike
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On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Mitchell Gil Maltenfort wrote:
> his is exactly what I do. However, one of the shutdown messages,
> >immediately before "System halted" is
> >
> >On the next boot fsck will be FORCED.
> >
> >Sound *as if* something is wrong although next boot-up is always OK. Is
> >there anything wrong or am I being paranoid??
>
>
> Nothing is wrong. I don't know where this is configured, but your system is
> keeping a count of how many times it was booted up between using 'fsck' to
> check the partitions. Once a certain count is reached, it forces 'fsck' to
> be called (as opposed to 'fsck' being a user option normally) to perform the
> Linux equivalent of 'scandisk'.
>
>
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