Public bug reported:
After installation of Ubuntu 12.04.1 I've noticed that periodical fsck check
during boot time never runs, as it was when I was using Ubuntu 10.04. I checked
my old 10.04 installation with 'tune2fs -l' and found that root partition had
'Maximum mount count' = 23 and home partition - 35 (both are ext4).
'tune2fs -l' on 12.04.1 shows 'Maximum mount count' = -1 on all partitions:
/boot (ext3), / and /home (ext4). That means that fsck checks will never run.
'Check interval' is also set to 0 on all volumes.
If this decision was made for the sake of fast boot up, I presume that data
integrity have the maximum priority. While this decision is somewhat meaningful
on laptops to preserve the battery, but on desktops and servers it is not good
at all. Also tune2fs man says that it is strongly recommended that either
mount-count-dependent or time-dependent checking must be enabled.
As I found no info indicating that this behaviour is intentional, I suppose
that this is a bug.
** Affects: ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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fsck routine checks on boot are disabled
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