FSCK Disk Checking...

[oblivion02]

Every once in a while, when I boot my box, it says that the root partition has been mounted 21 times, and has not been checked. That the check must be forced. It takes a long time to check the disk, then everything boots and works fine. Does this happen to everyone else? Is it necessary?

-Oblivion

[67GTA]

It is normal. It self checks every few boots.

[kenetics]

A while back there was a post that told how to change the number of boots until a forced check. I can't find it though. does anyone know the answer?

[Fred]

The default is 30 boots. Unless there is an over riding reason to change it, I wouldn't.

But if you must.

A value of "0" for the check interval disables the checks. Something like "sudo tune2fs -c 0 /dev/sdx" should disable checks based on mount counts; then it is a matter of "sudo tune2fs -i 1m /dev/sdx" to check /dev/sdx each month.

Fred

[kenetics]

Thanks Fred. My default was something like 22 or 24, and since I turn on my Linux computer several times a day, it was getting annoying. Once a month is better for me.

[psychomusician]

hey, i tried doing that, and got this error message

tune2fs: No such file or directory while trying to open /dev/sdx
Couldn't find valid filesystem superblock.

what does that mean?

[ed@Mint]

You have to replace the 'x' in sdX by the appropriate letter.
If you have a single hdd, it is '/dev/sda'