2011. december 20. 21:46 napon Anton Aylward
Istvan Gabor said the following on 12/20/2011 01:59 PM:
At every Nth mount fsck checks a given partition, which takes a long time.
fsck is ¬* linear with the size of a file system but a function of the power (square) or the size.
So a 4G FS will take longer to process than two 2G FS. Also the 2 file systems will be able to the fsck'd in parallel :-) You might also consider a setup where the 2 FS are _not_ fsck'd together: both have the same N but are spaced apart by M.
Thank you all for your responses. From the answers it seems I haven't explained clearly what I wanted. I don't have any problem with file system checking at boot, I think it is good. Therefore I don't want to change the change max-mount-counts (number). My problem is that occasionally I do not have the time to wait until fsck stops checking even one partition (eg is takes 5 minutes but I need to use the system within a minute). As I am not following the partitions' mount counts I don't know in advance whether a partition will be checked or not, when I start the system. When I see that fsck already started to check the filesystem I'd like to press a button (eg escape) which signals to the system that I want to cancel or interrupt checking and continue with the next step in the boot process. Is it possible? If not, it should be implemented. Thomas, is the 'fastboot' option you mentioned related to the "doing fast boot" message shown at the beginning of boot? Thanks, Istvan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org