fsck each reboot?

[Ken Moffat]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 06:14:19AM -0800, Ken Moffat took 20 lines to write:
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>>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.
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>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.
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>Kurt
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Thanks, that's what I figured, but thought I'd better run it past the 
list. I reset to zero and rebooted. Looks okay.