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Ben9250

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[SOLVED] fsck pass

Hi, this may be an odd question but I've only just noticed this, as I'm re-installing to my laptop after a long period of disuse during the final term of uni. In the setup guide I've read:

<pass> 
used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at boot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a <pass> of 1, and other filesystems should have a <pass> of 2 or 0. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.

In my fstab, all the partitions have been given a <pass> of 1. Do I need to change this or worry about it. If my assumptions on it are true then it simply mean every partition is checked with fsck.

Thanks,

Ben9250.

Last edited by Ben9250 (2011-06-17 02:33:32)

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Re: [SOLVED] fsck pass

I recommend that you change it. I doubt your PC will explode if you don't, but there's probably a good reason why only the root filesystem is supposed to have a priority of 1. Partitions will still get checked if they have a pass priority of 2.

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Ben9250

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From: Bath - England

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Re: [SOLVED] fsck pass

Thanks for that, I've made the appropriate changes.

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