Solutions Log » filesystem http://solutions.unixsherpa.com by Dan Reiland Fri, 16 Apr 2010 20:28:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Disable disk checking during boot on Linux systems http://solutions.unixsherpa.com/2009/08/27/disable-disk-checking-during-boot-on-linux-systems/ http://solutions.unixsherpa.com/2009/08/27/disable-disk-checking-during-boot-on-linux-systems/#comments Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:39:46 +0000 Dan http://solutions.unixsherpa.com/?p=190 Issue:
Linux (appropriately) checks filesystems after a number of boot cycles.

Cause:
This is by design. By default, ext[2,3,4] filesystems are automatically checked every 34 mounts or 180 days (whichever comes first).

Resolution:
In some cases (ephemeral machine instances in a cloud) this behavior is undesirable. It may be tuned with the following:

To disable it use the following at the terminal:

tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/hdXY

Set it to check after 30 system boots

tune2fs -c 30 -i 0 /dev/hdXY

Also ensure that your /etc/fstab file reflects a similar setting. The sixth column should contain a 0 (never check) rather than a 1 (check at boot).

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