[Novalug] ubuntu eats your laptop's hard drive
Jeff Stoner
leapfrog@freeshell.org
Thu Feb 14 09:58:03 EST 2008
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Anthony Soucek wrote:
> I have noticed that if I shut down my acer laptop normally it
> periodically during boot says something like- forcing disk check, file
> system shut down 33 times without checking..... then it runs a long
> disk check (by long I mean 60 seconds), I dont know if this is usual
> for linux but it's no problem so far. I seldom try to hiberante the
Yes, this is a feature of your filesystem. The ext2 and ext3 filesystems
have 2 counters associated with them: number of times mounted and number
of days since last check. Every time you mount a filesystem, these
counters are incremented. If either counter exceeds a configurable value,
a fsck is forced during the mount. If you manually run a fsck, these
counters are reset.
For those wondering, you can set these configurable values on each file
system with tune2fs.
--Jeff
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