forced fsck (again?)

[Eric Sandeen]

Eric Sandeen wrote:
> giancarlo corti wrote:
>> hello everyone.
>>
>> i guess this has been asked before, but haven't found it in the faq.
>>
>> i have the following issue...
>>
>> it is not uncommon nowadays to have desktops with filesystems
>> in the order of 500gb/1tb.
>>
>> now, my kubuntu (but other distros do the same) forces a fsck
>> on ext3 every so often, no matter what.
> 
> Did you just update to e2fsprogs-1.40.3?
> 
> If so, should be fixed in 1.40.4 for the most part.
> 
> See Debian bug 454926,
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454926

Oh - or, if it's not running each time, and it's just a general question
about periodic fscks, then yeah, what Larry said, I guess.

Although not all filesystems do this.

-Eric