On 18/07/12 23:02, Orion Poplawski wrote: > 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. If using ext{2,3,4}, I would strongly recommend *against* doing this. Running fsck from time to time isn't a bad thing. It can surely happen that it finds some things which should be fixed. If this is needed fro xfs, I dunno. For reiserfs it is not needed, it will take care of this on its own - and really needed, it'll scream loudly and you won't be able to mount that partition/lv and this fix might take hours to complete. Regarding other file systems, I have no experience. Removing these fsck's is like skipping taking your car to a car check every now and then. You car may run for a long way without a service. But when it is really needed, it can take a long time to fix and might be more costly compared to if you did this regularly ... and if you want a reliable server, having a little maintenance downtime couple of times during a year might not be such a bad investment - in the long run. Just my 2cents kind regards, David Sommerseth