Doing fsck on shutdown

Christian evil at g-house.de
Thu Nov 24 03:00:52 UTC 2005


Markus Peuhkuri schrieb:
> I usually shutdown computer for night (could probaly use software
> shutdown, but have not yet studied it).  In that case, the disk is
> checked quite often with default settings, usually in those cases I am
> in hurry and want computer to start up fast :-).

for often rebooted desktop systems i'd just tune2fs(8) the filesystem to 
fsck based on a given interval of time rather than on the count of the 
mounts:

% tune2fs -i 1m /dev/sda1
   ....will check sda1 every month.

Christian.
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