Michael Havens wrote:
> is it really necesary to do fsck on reboot? I was reading man fstab and
> noticed that the last entry concerned that. I was thinking that to prolong
> the life of my diskdrives I would have them run as little as possible and I
> would change the 1 to a zero. (see 1)
>
> /dev/hda5 / ext3 defaults,noatime,errors=remount-ro 0 1
> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022 0 0
> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
> /dev/dvd /dvd iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
> /dev/cdaudio /cdaudio iso9660 defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto 0 0
> # Added by KNOPPIX
> /dev/sda1 none swap defaults 0 0
> # Added by KNOPPIX
> /dev/sda5 /mnt/sda5 ext3 rw,users,noatime,errors=remount-ro,exec 0 0
> # Added by KNOPPIX
> /dev/sda6 /mnt/sda6 ext3 rw,users,noatime,errors=remount-ro,exec 0 0
> # Modified by mike
> /dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 vfat users,noatime,ro 0 0
> # Added by Mike
> none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults,noatime 0 0
> # Added by Mike
> /dev/sdb /mnt/flash vfat,users,noatime,exec 0 0
> /\
> I'm still working on the proper entry for the flash card
fsck's are not done on every reboot. They are done every X mountings of the
filesystem (I think the default is 8 or 10). The fsck entry in /etc/fstab just
specifies the order that partitions should be fsck'd on reboot and is very
important if the partitions are uncleanly unmounted (e.g. hard power reboot).
If you are using a journaled filesystem (ext3, jfs, xfs, ReiserFS, etc...), then
fsck's won't take nearly as long as they would under non-journaled filesystems
(ext2).
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