Re: [CentOS] FSCK

Dan Dansereau wrote:

Hello I have a newbie question, given a centos 5 installation, An 5 very large disk arrays ( 2.5Tbytes each ) -

Is there a way to suspend or stop the fsck during the boot up?

The system seems to pick the most inopportune time to decide to reach the check count limit... and with this many disks, a reboot takes several hours... which is an eternity when your boss is looking over your shoulders for data right now!

A ^c worked under version 4 - but has no affect on version 5

You should setup your partitions to not run fsck on a regular basis ... and only when there is a problem. At least that is my recommendation.

If the partitions are ext2 or ext3 you can do it like this:

tune2fs -i0 -c0 <device>

Thanks, Johnny Hughes