[CentOS] max mount count incovenient
Florin Andrei
florin at andrei.myip.org
Wed Jan 9 00:53:21 UTC 2008
Linux Man wrote:
> Hello group
> I added a new partition in fstab, and works without a problem.
> I used mkfs.ext3 to create the partition.
> My problem is that every 26 boots, the system tells that the partition
> have no been checked since 26 systems boots, ant start to check my new
> partition. This is a lot of time consuming, and always is in a bad
> time.
> There some way to do the check in a controlled time? i.e. do it the
> check before 26 system boot, when the time is no problem.
Disable auto fsck completely:
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /some/file/system
I only do this on systems that are reinstalled periodically
(workstations, laptops - I use OS such as Fedora or Ubuntu with a short
release cycle) when the drives are actually formatted during the reinstall.
It is probably not a good idea to disable auto fsck on servers, or on
any other systems that are not reinstalled often or run OS with a long
release cycle (CentOS).
The reason is - if you don't verify a filesystem for a very long time,
it will eventually blow up in your face. I believe (but not sure) that
Ubuntu uses, or will use in next versions, something like this:
tune2fs -c 0 -i 6m
Which means: auto fsck once every 6 months.
Since I upgrade the OS more often than once a year anyway, I chose to
disable auto fsck completely on that kind of machines. No problems so
far, but I wouldn't risk waiting more than 1 year.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
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