[GRLUG] WMNTUG Windows 7 Meeting

[Jeff DeFouw]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 01:55:13PM -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?

For most of us, it's not.  I don't know why this is still on by 
default.  I always turn it off.  You can always force a check on your 
own time, like when you're not trying to do a quick (re)boot.

I've had kernels crash many times, including with bad RAM, and the 
(manual) check never finds anything wrong.  That being said, all my 
computers are on battery backups, so power failures won't be 
interrupting my disk writes.

-- 
Jeff DeFouw <jeffd at i2k.com>