Disabling fsck on startup

[vicagnews]

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Hi ... whenever i startup or reboot my ubuntu system fsck always gets invoked causing my system to take ages to boot. Is there a reason why fsck starts? Is there a way of disabling this??

I have a dual boot system with XP and Ubuntu running on an AMD Turion64.

[jglen490]

To my knowledge none of the *buntu distros (I'm running Kubuntu) run fsck on every boot. I do know that there is a parameter that I simply accepted as a default upon installation - it's like 100 boots or 100 days, something like that.

The other possibility is that your Ubuntu is not shutting down properly, leaving bunged up journal entries, improperly closed files, thangs of that nature.

In short, fsck is a good thing to have, but t shouldn't normally run a full check on every boot.

[devils casper]

Hi ... whenever i startup or reboot my ubuntu system fsck always gets invoked causing my system to take ages to boot. Is there a reason why fsck starts? Is there a way of disabling this??

Hi !

is Ubuntu scanning all partitions or XP partition only?
you can set fsck option in /etc/fstab file.

gksu gedit /etc/fstab

last digit of every mouting line controls fsck. set value to 0 if want to disable fsck.

/dev/hda1  /media/window_c   vfat  defaults 0 0

[vicagnews]

thanks for the reply casper and jglen ...

to answer your question jglen: my ubuntu system always shuts down normally ... no error messages are displayed to the best of my knowledge.

casper: here's what my fstab configuration looks like:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
# /dev/hda6
UUID=d4ab7f9f-e66a-4074-8d78-14e3adead8c7 /               ext3    defaults,errors=remount-ro 0       1
# /dev/hda1
UUID=3007-17F2  /media/hda1     vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/hda2
UUID=320D-180E  /media/hda2     vfat    defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0       1
# /dev/hda5
UUID=57e36415-9e7b-4543-bfce-dd69b3bcab74 none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

i guess it is scanning both the fat32 file-systems that i have on my system each of the time (hence the '1'?)

... so if I put '0' there instead ... it should stop doing that??

thanks again!

[devils casper]

your /etc/fstab file is a bit messy. it should be like this

proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
UUID=d4ab7f9f-e66a-4074-8d78-14e3adead8c7 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/hda1
UUID=3007-17F2  /media/hda1     vfat    defaults,umask=0 0 0
# /dev/hda2
UUID=320D-180E  /media/hda2     vfat    defaults,umask=0 0 0
# /dev/hda5
UUID=57e36415-9e7b-4543-bfce-dd69b3bcab74 none     swap    sw  0  0
/dev/hdc        /media/cdrom0   udf,iso9660 user,noauto     0       0

[vicagnews]

thanks casper ... i just changed the last '1' to '0' in my fstab file and now there's no more slow booting (I didn't clean it up as you had suggested, though)!!

thanks a lot for your advice!!!

- Vic