[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

Raymond McLaughlin driveray at ameritech.net
Wed Sep 16 15:01:45 EDT 2009


Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 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.

This is why XFS is my filesystem of choice, especially for large
volumes. Some folks like to stick with a small ext3 volume for the OS
itself, and there are valid reasons for this selection. But for big
(>30G) filesystems XFS is really the way to go.

Raymond McLaughlin


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