Leo wrote:
I'm just looking for a way to skip the occasional check at boot, because
I don't want to wait ages for the computer boot. A lot of Ctrl-C does
the trick but then no disks get mounted so I end up spending just as
long mounting them manually as the computer takes checking them!
Leo wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/7/25 Leo li...@fractal.me.uk:
On a not entirely unrelated note, when the a file system check starts
during a boot up, is it possible to skip it? I've tried Ctrl-C but that
doesn't work.
Pressing Esc doesn't work for me, it just carries on doing the check.
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 07:55:59PM +, Leo wrote:
Keith Edmunds wrote:
I put this command together to find out whether the checks would run if
the system were rebooted. It isn't perfect - patches welcome! - but it
does the job.
for a in $(fdisk -l 2/dev/null|grep -v Extended|\
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:21:14PM -, Damian Brasher wrote:
Hugo Mills wrote:
Another solution I've seen recently is to remove the check-on-boot
entirely. This in itself is a bad thing, because you then don't get to
find random bit-flip data corruptions (which is what the regular
Hugo Mills wrote:
Or, when you have time, boot onto emergency mode from grub by adding
'emergency' at the grub command prompt. Login when prompted then fdisk -l
to
view the available partitions then fsck manually.
That requires you to think about it, and involves a reboot and
Keith Edmunds wrote:
I put this command together to find out whether the checks would run if
the system were rebooted. It isn't perfect - patches welcome! - but it
does the job.
for a in $(fdisk -l 2/dev/null|grep -v Extended|\
grep ^/|awk '{print $1}');do echo $a:;dumpe2fs -h $a 21|\
On Sat, 2009-11-21 at 11:10 +, Leo wrote:
Pressing Esc doesn't work for me, it just carries on doing the check.
Does the ability to skip them have to be enabled somewhere?
Well, they can be stopped in the first place (or made more infrequent)
using the -c or -i options of tune2fs.
James
I put this command together to find out whether the checks would run if
the system were rebooted. It isn't perfect - patches welcome! - but it
does the job.
for a in $(fdisk -l 2/dev/null|grep -v Extended|\
grep ^/|awk '{print $1}');do echo $a:;dumpe2fs -h $a 21|\
grep -v 'Bad magic
Hi Keith,
On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:53:07PM +0100, Keith Edmunds wrote:
Is it possible to establish, on a running system, how many mounts each
filesystem has had since the last check and what the tune2fs
-c parameter is? Similarly, is it possible to find out how many days have
elapsed since
Thanks Andy, exactly what I was looking for.
Keith
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On a not entirely unrelated note, when the a file system check starts
during a boot up, is it possible to skip it? I've tried Ctrl-C but that
doesn't work.
Leo
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2009/7/25 Leo li...@fractal.me.uk:
On a not entirely unrelated note, when the a file system check starts
during a boot up, is it possible to skip it? I've tried Ctrl-C but that
doesn't work.
Depends. On Ubuntu you can press ESC to skip it.
Cheers,
Al.
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