since installing debian, every time I re-boot, dosfsck runs.
to say the least, this can really take some time to complete on a
120Gig drive.

what can I do to stop this?
tia,
-Art- (not Art)

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On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:06:40 -0500, -Art-
<Art2U@invalid.com> wrote:
> since installing debian, every time I re-boot, dosfsck runs.
> to say the least, this can really take some time to complete on a
> 120Gig drive.
>
> what can I do to stop this?
> tia,
> -Art- (not Art)

Do you really mean dosfsck, as opposed to fsck on your Debian
partition(s)?  If so, look in /etc/fstab, specifically at the number in
the last column.  Change that to 0 if you don't want the partition to be
checked on each reboot.  If you are referring to the Debian partitions,
and you are not in the habit of switching off the power without shutting
down, you can use tune2fs (or another tune*fs if the filesystem is not
ext2 or ext3).  If you have an ext2 filesystem, you might consider
changing it to ext3 with "tune2fs -j".


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On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:50:20 -0500, Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com>
wrote:

>On Sun, 12 Mar 2006 19:06:40 -0500, -Art-
>  <Art2U@invalid.com> wrote: 
>
>Do you really mean dosfsck, as opposed to fsck on your Debian
>partition(s)?  If so, look in /etc/fstab, specifically at the number in
>the last column.  Change that to 0 if you don't want the partition to be
>checked on each reboot.  If you are referring to the Debian partitions,
>and you are not in the habit of switching off the power without shutting
>down, you can use tune2fs (or another tune*fs if the filesystem is not
>ext2 or ext3).  If you have an ext2 filesystem, you might consider
>changing it to ext3 with "tune2fs -j".
thanks!
and yes, it was dosfsck.
-Art- (not Art)

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-Art- wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 07:50:20 -0500, Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com>
> wrote:

> thanks!
> and yes, it was dosfsck.
> -Art- (not Art)

Bill certainly hit the nail on the head -- but you gave no info about
your setup ...like the output of
$ cat /etc/fstab

Thanks Bill -- I learned something today -- I also reviewed ' man fstab
'

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