> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Marty Ferguson wrote: > >> >Running fsck on the disk before mounting it doesn't reset the counter >> for >> >the number of mounts to be counted towards the forced fsck (although I >> >would have hoped it did) and I still have to wait for a forced fsck >> when >> >the disk wants, rather than when I want.
I thought if you placed a zero in the sixth field in your fstab, that it would not try to check the filesystem. Maybe I am misunderstanding either your problem or "man fstab". I have not tried this, so it may not work. You could then schedule fsck on the disk when you wanted. Matt -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
