[TriLUG] scheduling a forced fsck

[Lance A. Brown]

Hi Joseph,

You can use tune2fs to change mount-count numbers on a filesystem to 
control when the computer will fsck it at boot time.

tune2fs -c max-mount-counts fsdevice
   sets the maximal mounts count between two fsck runs.

tune2fs -C mount-count fsdevice
   sets the mount-count on fsdevice to the specified number.

Using these, you can write a script to adjuste the mount count numbers 
  and prevent unwanted fsck operations.

--[Lance]

Joseph Mack NA3T wrote:
> I have a laptop with a usb v1.0 port. I use an external 120G usb disk for
> backup and moving files between computers. After mounting 23 times (or
> whatever), the external disk has a forced fsck, which takes about 2hrs on
> the usb v1.0 machine, derailing any attempt to use the disk for the rest
> of the evening.
> 
> I could set the disk to never require a forced fsck, but I'm afraid that
> might have other repercussions (although I'm not sure what).
> 
> 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 was hoping that I could do something on my schedule (eg run fsck on the
> disk when I know I'm not going to use it) to avoid this problem.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks Joe
> 

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