XFS checks on boot

Collins erichey2
Mon May 17 11:42:09 PDT 2004


On Wed, 25 Dec 2002 19:44:50 -0500 "Brett I. Holcomb"
<bholcomb at intergate.com> wrote:
> I've installed Gentoo on a partition on one of my systems and 've
> noticed that Gentoo runs a file system check when it starts.  My
> system is all xfs and Gentoo runs fsck - not very useful for this
> system.  I assume I need to edit the /etc/init.d checkfs and
> checkroot scripts to put in the xfs tools. Or does XFS do it's own
> checking when it boots?
> 

I would send this question to gentoo-users.  I've never run xfs on
gentoo.  I run ext3, and you have to turn off checking for the
partition with 'tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/hdxy' to avoid fsck.  I don't
believe that you should need to edit the bootscripts.

-- 
Collins Richey - Denver Area
Gentoo 1.4 sytem


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