[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[john-thomas richards]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 02:26:03PM -0400, 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.

I know what it is, and certainly know how annoying it can be.  (Why is
it always the Xth number of mounts when you need to boot quickly?)  My
question isn't about tune2fs.  Is an automatic fsck necessary with a
journaling filesystem like ext3?
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john-thomas
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