[PLUG] Forced fsck

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Sat May 6 05:04:55 UTC 2006


Today while trying to boot my Ubuntu-64 Breezy laptop at PSU (see other
post a few minutes ago), Ubuntu decided it do a file system check.
"Booted 30 times, mandatory check" or something like that was the
message.

This has happened numerous times in the past. But today (naturally) it
happened when I was in a hurry and anxious to get going (a lab
assistant was standing by waiting for my computer to boot so I could
show him what was really on my thumb drive). It takes almost five
minutes for it to go through the file system check.

I don't mind that it wants to check the filesystem, it's just that it
always decides to do it at the most inconvenient times. I need a "Not
Now!" command. I tried Ctrl-c but that just allows me to restart the
computer. When it restarts it still wants to check the filesystem.
Anyone know how to get past the automatic filesystem check? Better yet,
is there a way to change it so it stops and asks me before it
automatically does the check?



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