From: Mark Milhollan Sent: April 21, 2015 05:35 > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote: > > >CentOS 6 > > >From ''man fstab'' ... > > The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) > program to determine the order > in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. > The root filesystem should be > specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other > filesystems should have a fs_passno of > 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked > sequentially, but filesystems on > different drives will be checked at the same time to > utilize parallelism available > in the hardware. If the sixth field is not present or > zero, a value of zero is > returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does > not need to be checked. Thanks but changing the order of execution or executing them in parallel does not help with executing them one per reboot. Regards, Hugh -- Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com