Re: [gentoo-user] Can a forced volume check be interrupted?

[Mick]

On Wednesday 13 April 2011 01:45:43 Bill Kenworthy wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 14:52 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 12:31 PM, Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > Sometimes the ext3 forced volume check at boot triggers at an
> > > inopportune time.  Is there a way to skip it and let it run at the
> > > next boot?
> >
> > Not once it has started, but there are some ways to avoid it running
> > in the first place:
> >
> > Add "fastboot" to your kernel commandline to make it bypass the
> > auto-fsck. A grub entry for "skip fsck" might be handy.
> >
> > Edit /etc/fstab to prevent the auto-fsck from ever running by changing
> > the last field to 0.
> >
> > If it's an ext[123] you can use tune2fs -i 0 to set the auto-check
> > interval to never.
>
> Thats one reason I have been looking at btrfs - online fsck.  Has been
> solid even on unexpected crashes (I am setting up remote power on/off
> and pressed the wrong button - more than once :)  I actually had some
> minor corruption on reiserfs, but btrfs was fine and could be checked
> online anyway in a lot less time than reiserfsck took.

ext4 takes only a second if not less at boot time - depending on the size of 
the partition of course.
-- 
Regards,
Mick