Howto Change Ubuntu Forced fsck
In Ubuntu 7.10 the boot hard disk is checked every 20 boots. I have to boot my laptop quite often, so about once a week booting takes more than 10 minutes. This clearly sucks. Fortunately, there is an easy way to fix this. With tune2fs it is possible to change the interval from mount-times to timed interval:
sudo tune2fs -c 0 -i 1m /dev/sda3
This disables maximum mount time for forced check, but instead uses timed check. Every month the harddisk is forced to get checked. I can live with that.
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November 3rd, 2007 at 3:35 am
thank you very usefull. fortunatelly my notebook does boot in 10 minutes. It does it in one minute from the moment i press enter in grub to full desktop environment.
November 3rd, 2007 at 7:55 pm
Very informative and useful post.
November 9th, 2007 at 1:28 am
One thing to note is that it may not be sda3 for your drive. For instance, on my laptop it’s /dev/hda1.