Eric Sandeen wrote: > giancarlo corti wrote: >> hello everyone. >> >> i guess this has been asked before, but haven't found it in the faq. >> >> i have the following issue... >> >> it is not uncommon nowadays to have desktops with filesystems >> in the order of 500gb/1tb. >> >> now, my kubuntu (but other distros do the same) forces a fsck >> on ext3 every so often, no matter what. > > Did you just update to e2fsprogs-1.40.3? > > If so, should be fixed in 1.40.4 for the most part. > > See Debian bug 454926, > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=454926 Oh - or, if it's not running each time, and it's just a general question about periodic fscks, then yeah, what Larry said, I guess. Although not all filesystems do this. -Eric _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users