On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:10:36PM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 at 18:53 GMT, Paul E Condon penned: > > > >>=20 Wait, wait; I'm confused. I thought one of the perks of running a > >>journalling file system was that you can speed up the boot process by > >>disabling boot-time fsck? =20 > > > > I guess there's no free lunch. But is there some way to schedule fsck > > at some regular time when you know you won't be needing the mounted=20 > > file system? e.g. at 3am local time, or maybe 3pm for night owls? > > > > Wouldn't this require rebooting first, or something, in order to fsck > the root partition? >
Maybe not, if one can figure out how to start a ramdisk OS dynamically, or some such. I didn't say it would be easy. I think I will have *a lot* of respect for whoever does figure it out, but I don't think its impossible. -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
