[nflug] ext3 fsck

Cyber Source peter at thecybersource.com
Thu Dec 22 08:27:23 EST 2005


Justin Bennett wrote:

> This is an easy one I hope, is there a way to tell the days since last 
> filesystem check on journaling ext3? I have a server with alot of 
> storage I want to reboot (new Kernel) but want to know if 180 days 
> have passed and I'm going to be stuck with an hour FSCK on reboot...
>
I'm not sure about that one but if you change the sixth field in your
fstab file relative to your partition mounts for your system to 0, it
will not check them no matter how much time has past. After the reboot,
you can change it back to what it was.

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