On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 11:32 AM, Mohit Sharma <[email protected]> wrote:
> can anyone tell me what does this filesystem checking means ? > I saw this message each time after some 40 - 45 time logins on fedora. it > says - > > '/dev/sda7 has been mounted 42 times without being checked filesystem, > force checked' > > and after that it takes aroung 2-3 min. for checking the filesystem > and again reboot. > can anyone tell me is there any way to do it manually or stop it doing so, > because these 2-3 min. seems like hours when you want to do urgent > login to your system. > > -- > l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm > checking the file system means checking whether all the components of the operating system are working fine or not. there might be certain occasions wherein the system might have got shutdown improperly (which might cause loss of consistency in the system data structures). this is a security measure incorporated in operating systems. on some systems, this is triggered by improper shutdown the previous time while on others it is programmed to occur after a fixed number of times the system has been shutdown/started. on linux systems, this file checking can be done manually as well. the command for the file checking is : *fsck* to know more about the switches that operate for the command, just type into your terminal *man fsck* -- Ankur -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
