fsck each reboot?

[Kurt Wall]

On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:14:19AM -0800, Ken Moffat took 20 lines to write:
> I have a laptop running Kanotix linux (debian sid) and on each reboot
> the vfat partitions on the drive are fsck'd (dosfsck), causing an
> annoying delay. The relevant fstab lines (auto-generated during install)
> end with 2. What are the ramifications of changing that to a 0,
> eliminating the check? Also, why is this done each reboot rather than
> every 20 or whatever is the norm? Seems to only happen on this laptop,
> which is dual boot with xp. My Kanotix desktop set up fstab with zeros
> instead of 2's.

Setting the check parameter to 0 won't have any ramification beyond
cancelling the fsck. I don't know why vfat partitions are checked at
each reboot, except that the check paramter tells it to happen.

Kurt
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