[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 13:55 -0400, john-thomas richards wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:46:40PM -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > > on boot when ext3 hit its 35-mount automatic fsck. (On a rather full
> > > 1TB drive, that can take long enough so as to look like it's not
> > > getting anywhere...) 
> > Ugh, I know!  You can change that with tune2fs.
> How necessary is this anymore?

To delay, or control, the mandatory filesystem check that occurs every X
number of mounts.  On large filesystems this can take a very long time
and on laptops it can just be down right annoying.