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On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 07:19 -0700, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > If you use reiserfs, you don't need the checks. Plus, if you use reiserfs, you have other bigger problems... :) > Same with xfs, I believe. ext4 should be doing some fun on-the-fly optimization and repair stuff to mostly obsolete the need for any periodic fsck too, fwiw, though I dunno how many people are brave enough to touch ext4 yet... :) (I have 1TB FireWire RAID volume formatted ext4 that I do multiple kernel builds on every day though, and its been rock-solid for at least a month now... :) > On 3/27/08, Scott Ehrlich <[hidden email]> wrote: > > I introduced my parents to Linux [Ubuntu Gutsy] at their place, and they > > tried it for a few days. It was still too new for them, so they opted > > back for Windows. > > > > I was considering re-introducing it to them at some other point, until a > > few days later, my Linux box (Ubuntu) presented me with a reminder why > > Windows and Mac are still desktop-ready, but Linux isn't - the obligatory > > filesystem check if the machine has been rebooted at least 30 times. > > > > This leads me to the question of can this check be turned off? I know it > > is a kernel function, and not distro-based. If it can be turned off, what > > are the consequences?
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