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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Any way to specify options for scheduled filesystem checks?

Today I ran e2fsck -fD on my netbook's ext4 partitions, and was surprised to see the machine's cumulative boot and login time drop by about ten seconds. Evidently the "rarely necessary" nature of the -D option doesn't mean it shouldn't be done once in a while.

So I'm wondering if there's a way to make e2fscks scheduled by tune2fs use -D. Is it possible to specify the parameters through tune2fs, or some other way? The man page doesn't say; nor does there appear to be anything on it for e2fsck.conf.

Last edited by Gullible Jones (2012-08-06 02:43:28)

matse

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Registered: 2011-04-27

Posts: 299

Re: Any way to specify options for scheduled filesystem checks?

This should be possible via the configuration file e2fsck.conf (/etc/e2fsck.conf) - it has an own man page. If you want to change options for your root system I guess you have to create such a config file in your initramfs.
An alternative would be to boot from a live cd.
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matse

x33a

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Re: Any way to specify options for scheduled filesystem checks?

You'll need to edit your boot scripts, and include the switch.