Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-13 Thread Mick
On Wednesday 13 April 2011 01:45:43 Bill Kenworthy wrote: On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it

[gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Grant
Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the next boot? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 1:31:31 PM Subject: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted? Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the next boot? - Grant

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread felix
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 10:50:56AM -0700, BRM wrote: Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. That misses the point.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Grant
Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk. That misses the point.  I have rebooted sometimes just for a quick change,

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well - and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data corruption on disk.

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Grant
Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system relatively clean again so that things function well -  and things don't get lost. If you skip it, you risk data  corruption on disk. That misses the point.  I have rebooted  sometimes just for a quick

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread BRM
- Original Message From: Grant emailgr...@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Tue, April 12, 2011 3:29:35 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted? Probably, but why would you want to? it fixes any errors, and makes the file system

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time.  Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the next boot? Not once it has started, but there are some ways to avoid it running in the first

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: If it's an ext[123] you can use tune2fs -i 0 to set the auto-check interval to never. oops, I of course meant 234 not 123 :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

2011-04-12 Thread Bill Kenworthy
On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant emailgr...@gmail.com wrote: Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an inopportune time. Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the next boot? Not once it has started,