Preventing ext3 fsck at boot?

[Sandor W. Sklar]

On Sep 28, 2007, at 12:45 PM, Young, Mike wrote:

> Check the man page of fstab.
>
> The last field in every record indicates whether the file system is  
> checked on reboot.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike.

Yes, thanks, I know that.  And if a system crashes, you want all of  
its filesystems to be fsck'd at reboot.  That is not the issue here.   
The issue is that, built in to the design of the ext2/ext3 filesystem  
is the idea that filesystems of those types should be fsck'd at  
startup, even if it unmounted cleanly, every X number of days since  
the previous fsck.

My question, again, is:  since ext3 filesystems are, by definition,  
journaled, and since having a journaled filesystem *usually*  
precludes the need to do routine fscking, is there a reason why this  
feature should NOT be disabled for cleanly unmounted ext3  
filesystems, and if there is no reason not to disable it, what is the  
proper syntax of the tune2fs command that will accomplish that.

	-s-

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Sandor W. Sklar
Unix Systems Administrator
Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR)
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