On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Matt Pusateri wrote: > > On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Marty Ferguson wrote: > > > >> >Running fsck on the disk before mounting it doesn't reset the mount > >> >counter (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.
I'm trying to avoid that approach, although I'm not sure that it will get me into any trouble. I was looking for a method to force a fsck on my schedule. Spelunking in the init scripts on a new machin, I find a -f option to fsck, which forces a fsck, that I hadn't seen before. man (8) fsck didn't show this option and I assumed it didn't exist. However man (8) fsck.ext2, which I didn't know I had, shows more options to fsck than ever I knew about. The -f option resets the mount count to 0, which you can read with dumpe2fs, solving my problem. Thanks Joe -- Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina jmack (at) wm7d (dot) net - azimuthal equidistant map generator at http://www.wm7d.net/azproj.shtml Homepage http://www.austintek.com/ It's GNU/Linux! -- 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
