Re: [Patch] document ext3 requirements (was Re: [RFD] Incremental fsck)

[Valerie Henson]

On Jan 16, 2008 3:49 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> ext3's "lets fsck on every 20 mounts" is good idea, but it can be
> annoying when developing. Having option to fsck while filesystem is
> online takes that annoyance away.

I'm sure everyone on cc: knows this, but for the record you can change
ext3's fsck on N mounts or every N days to something that makes sense
for your use case.  Usually I just turn it off entirely and run fsck
by hand when I'm worried:

# tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/whatever

-VAL
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