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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 252 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070809/9080d6b6/attachment-0005.sig>