20th mount reached. check forced.

KENTOSI · 2005-06-26 02:25:07

Hi All,

Everytime 20th time I reboot my ArchLinux it forces a hard-check which takes aaages to complete (120GB here). How do I disable this? Or make it ask for confirmation?

Shofs · 2005-06-26 02:41:10

I am wondering out of curiosity, what filesystem are you using?

Dusty · 2005-06-26 02:47:13

both ext2 and ext3 exhibit this behavior.

check out the tune2fs man page. I don't know if you can disable it, but you canmake it check less often than 20 mounts.

Dusty

KENTOSI · 2005-06-26 03:10:27

My filesystem is the default (ext3).

I had a look at the man for tune2fs, I'm guessing I should always run:
tune2fs -C 1 af boot time?

Snowman · 2005-06-26 03:34:22

It might not be a good idea to disable it completely. Set it that it checks after more than 20 mounts or use -i to set a time interval between checks. Also, you can set a different checking frequency for each partition. That way it won't check the whole disk at once.

shaurz · 2005-06-26 04:13:27

It is possible to disable it. You only need to run tune2fs once.

rasat · 2005-06-26 06:46:11

shaurz wrote:

It is possible to disable it.

Edit /etc/fstab and use option "0 0" instead of "0 1".
Example:
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 / ext3 defaults 0 0

Some may say its not safe, but I have been using this config for two years and no problem. Some places where I have been staying, often electricity goes off.

dtw · 2005-06-26 09:11:25

Or, do the sensible thing, and partition your ridiculously large hard disk!

FUBAR · 2005-06-26 15:44:25

rasat wrote:

shaurz wrote:
It is possible to disable it.
Edit /etc/fstab and use option "0 0" instead of "0 1".
Example:
/dev/discs/disc0/part2 / ext3 defaults 0 0
Some may say its not safe, but I have been using this config for two years and no problem. Some places where I have been staying, often electricity goes off.

JFS really doesn't like that: I've been using a big JFS-partition with my movies and stuff on it, whenever I had an improper reboot, the partition wouldn't mount before I fsck'ed it. I guess it depends a lot on the FS you're using.
I don't get why Arch uses the "unsafe" way as default.

colnago · 2005-06-27 04:42:02

I think it is because reiser doesn't allow the check if the partition is mounted, so the '...defaults 0 1' in fstab doesn't work.

shaurz · 2005-06-27 13:50:28

rasat wrote:

shaurz wrote:
It is possible to disable it.
Edit /etc/fstab and use option "0 0" instead of "0 1".

I was thinking of:

tune2fs -c 0 /dev/hdXX

I wouldn't do this on any of my normal filesystems. I've only ever used this for a floppy disk image I was mounting a lot (don't ask).

Dusty · 2005-06-27 14:40:29

shaurz wrote:

I wouldn't do this on any of my normal filesystems. I've only ever used this for a floppy disk image I was mounting a lot (don't ask).

Why were you mounting a floppy disk image a lot?

:shock:

Dusty

Shofs · 2005-06-27 16:19:31

KENTOSI wrote:

My filesystem is the default (ext3).
I had a look at the man for tune2fs, I'm guessing I should always run:
tune2fs -C 1 af boot time?

That is what I figured, apparently Dusty did as well.

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20th mount reached. check forced.

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