On 07/18/2012 02:50 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
>
>     I don't know the exact number, I think it is 27 reboots,
> your boot will automatically drop to an FSCK.  In RHEL5,
> your would see a status bar showing you progress.  In 6,
> you get no indication that an FSCK is happening and you
> think you are frozen.  The temptation to throw the power
> switch is overwhelming.

I can't speak to the lack of status, but you can disable the automatic fsck with:

tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/....

This is pretty much done automatically now for any filesystems that the 
install makes, but not ones that you create later.


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