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/