[TriLUG] scheduling a forced fsck

[Matt Pusateri]

> On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Marty Ferguson wrote:
>
>> >Running fsck on the disk before mounting it doesn't reset the counter
>> for
>> >the number of mounts to be counted towards the forced fsck (although I
>> >would have hoped it did) and I still have to wait for a forced fsck
>> when
>> >the disk wants, rather than when I want.


I thought if you placed a zero in the sixth field in your fstab, that it
would not try to check the filesystem.  Maybe I am misunderstanding either
your problem or "man fstab".  I have not tried this, so it may not work.
You could then schedule fsck on the disk when you wanted.


Matt