[CentOS] FSCK

[Johnny Hughes]

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

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