On Thu, 3 May 2007 08:50:07 +0100 peter nikolic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I go to a customers site turn on the laptop and hey presto i am stuck there > not able to use it because ext3 has deciede it needs to do an fsck oj the > filing system now it only an 80Gb drive in a 64 bit machine but when you are > waiting to use the machine for something reasonably important it is the > absolute pitts and not a good advert for linux at all . On the surface, I agree with you. But, that is a configurable parameter you can change with tune2fs(8). The command 'tune2fs -c -1 /dev/hda1' will turn off the max-counts for that partition. The -i option is a time interval. All file systems should be checked periodically. Normally, ext2/ext3 systems set the max count interval by default. There is no corresponding way for reiserfs to force an fsck, but there is a reiserfstune(8) utility, but that is a bit different. There is a lot of data available on the Internet that compares the various file systems available to Linux (ext3, reiserfs, XFS and JFS). -- Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9
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