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hybrid

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Registered: 2007-02-05

Posts: 261

ways to temporarily turn off boot time filesystem checks

Hi, I'm fooling around with a number of different kernels at the moment and as long as I'm testing I would like to skip the filesystem checks at boot time.
Is there a way to just skip them rather than turning them off completely with tune2fs? Like for example setting the 6th field in /etc/fstab to zero?

destruct

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Registered: 2009-12-24

Posts: 14

Re: ways to temporarily turn off boot time filesystem checks

Like for example setting the 6th field in /etc/fstab to zero?

Set it to zero and the filesystemcheck will passed.

Ramses de Norre

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From: Leuven - Belgium

Registered: 2007-03-27

Posts: 1,289

Re: ways to temporarily turn off boot time filesystem checks

touch /fastboot

or

shutdown -fh

which does the first before halting. The file should be removed in the boot sequence so it's a one-time setting. the opposite is creating a file /forcefsck .

Last edited by Ramses de Norre (2010-07-01 12:24:26)

hybrid

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Registered: 2007-02-05

Posts: 261

Re: ways to temporarily turn off boot time filesystem checks

Thank you for the replies.
Just out of curiosity and because I've never heard of that before: Which package/part of the system offers the '/fastboot' functionality? I mean, none of the tools of e2fsprogs is gonna check whether /fastboot exists, so is this a more or less arch specific functionality? I can't even find a check in the initscripts for that, so how does it work? :>