I don't bother changing the setting for local disks as it is usually pretty quick to scan them. You must have a pretty big and/or slow file system for fsck to take 2+ hours. nate _______________________________________________
This particular server has 2x 500GB HDD's with failry "full" XEN VM's on it, each with it's own LVM volumes, so I guess it's a bit more complex than a normal ext2 system :)
If you have your XEN VMs in LVM volumes there is no filesystem for fsck to check - so no 2+ hours for the physical. Do you mean with "2+ hours" the accumulated time for the filesystems in all VMs being checked?
Henry