[PLUG] Ubuntu 30-boot forced fsck

John Jason Jordan johnxj at comcast.net
Thu May 15 13:46:16 UTC 2008


On Wed, 14 May 2008 23:56:03 -0600
Stuart Jansen <sjansen at buscaluz.org> dijo:

> On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 22:40 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > I've been bitching about this for years. Every 30th boot Ubuntu tells
> > me it needs to do an fsck.
> 
> tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/XXX # /dev/sda1 or /dev/md0 or whatever
> 
> I don't know if the disk checks are a deliberate decisions by the
> creators of the Ubuntu installer, or a side effect of you creating the
> filesystems by hand instead of using the installer, but the above can be
> used to turn if off.

I don't want to turn it off. A periodic fsck is a good idea. I want it
to give me the option to skip it until the next boot.

As far as I know the 30-boot mandatory fsck is an Ubuntu thing. I've
been using Ubuntu since Breezy and it's always been there, but from
comments by others it does not appear in all distros.

Just now I checked /boot/grob/menu.lst on the desktop and the laptop
and I don't see any differences that should cause the desktop to give
me a skip option where the laptop does not. 

Having said that I suspect the reason the laptop does not is because of
usplash. The installations on the laptop and the desktop  were both
brand new installations of Gutsy, But the usplash never worked on the
laptop, so after much gnashing of teeth I installed splashy instead.
When I upgraded the laptop to Hardy I discovered that Ubuntu had fixed
whatever problems caused usplash not to work, so I uninstalled splashy.
I note that when the laptop went into the mandatory usplash yesterday
it cut to the command line, where the desktop still stayed in the
usplash mode. That is probably why the laptop does not give me the
option to skip while the desktop does.

I need to figure out what Ubuntu is doing on the desktop to give me the
option to skip the  mandatory 30-boot fsck so I can enable it on the
laptop as well.



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