>> > Right.
>>
>> wrong
>>
>> > Of course, if there are serious filesystem structural problems you'll
>> > want to get them solved, but it's either a LiveCD chroot or disable
>> > fsck at boot.
>>
>> There's nothing wrong with the filesystem. It's ext2  and requires
>> being checked at every boot.
>
> Wrong. There is no need to fsck ext2 at every boot. The default is to check it
> every 26 mounts. You can change that if you want, and send your reboot times
> sky-high..
>
>> Before that it wouldn't boot at all.
>
> That would appear to be a completely separate issue.

Exactly.  In fact, we had a lab computer running a 2.2 kernel and it
was failing fsck and wouldn't boot, so I just turned off the fsck at
boot.  Hey, the filesystem could be corrupted, but it boots!

~daid

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