Re: how to stop an in-progress fsck that runs at boot?

[Always Learning <centos@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 21:39 -0500, Matt Garman wrote:

> I can't seem to find the answer to this question via web search... I
> changed some hardware on a server, and upon powering it back on, got
> the "/dev/xxx has gone 40 days without being check, check forced"
> message.  Now it's running fsck on a huge (2 TB) ext3 filesystem (5400
> RPM drives no less).  How can I stop this in-progress check?  Ctrl-C
> doesn't seem to have any effect.  Is the only answer to wait it out?

Don't know the answer but apart from the obvious annoyance you can try
to look on the good side and be reassured, eventually when it finishes,
that your disk and contents are in good condition.

Would be nice if one could schedule this sort of work for off-peak.


Regards,

Paul.


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