F10: boot hangs after yesterday's yum updates

Mikkel L. Ellertson mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Wed Feb 4 14:36:09 UTC 2009


Tim wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 03:32 -0800, Colin Brace wrote:
>> As an aside: I have four 1 TB drives in this system, and I dread
>> seeing the "this drive has been booted 28 times without a check"
>> warning when I reboot. In my experience, fsck takes around 35 minutes
>> to check a 1 TB drive. :(((
> 
> Hmm, yeah, yuck...  I wonder if manually running a fsck resets the
> counter used for the auto check?  If so, perhaps you want to schedule a
> reboot and fsck for some early morning weekly event.
> 
Yes, manually running fsck resets the counter. You can also change
the count, or even turn off auto-checking with tune2fs if it is an
ext2/ext3 file system.

Mikkel
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