Re: [Hampshire] Periodic filesystem checks

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Author: Leo
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Periodic filesystem checks
Keith Edmunds wrote:
> I put this command together to find out whether the checks would run if
> the system were rebooted. It isn't perfect - patches welcome! - but it
> does the job.
>
> for a in $(fdisk -l 2>/dev/null|grep -v Extended|\
>     grep ^/|awk '{print $1}');do echo "$a:";dumpe2fs -h $a 2>&1|\
>     grep -v 'Bad magic number'|\
>     egrep '(^Mount count:|Maximum mount count:|Next check after:)';echo;done

>
> Needs to be run as root; maybe it's helpful to someone.
>


I'm just looking for a way to skip the occasional check at boot, because
I don't want to wait ages for the computer boot. A lot of Ctrl-C does
the trick but then no disks get mounted so I end up spending just as
long mounting them manually as the computer takes checking them!

Leo