Rich Shepard <[email protected]> writes:
> On Thu, 28 Oct 2010, Carlos Konstanski wrote:
>
>> tune2fs -c lets you adjust the number of mounts between fsks.
>
> Carlos,
>
> I realize this but am curious why the defaults are so different. What I saw
> here was:
>
> /dev/sda1 1G 21 mounts
> /dev/sda2 100M 20 mounts
> /dev/sda5 200G 37 mounts
> /dev/sda6 100G 28 mounts
> /dev/sda7 195G 35 mounts
> /dev/sda8 5G 27 mounts
> /dev/sda9 4G 37 mounts
>
> Seems almost random.
It is, within limits: the purpose is to keep them from *all* being checked at
the same time, but rather to spread that out a little bit more across time.
It means more frequent, but shorter, delays at boot caused by fsck.
Regards,
Daniel
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