[plug] Ext3, and fsck auto-checks

[Trevor Phillips]

On Friday 21 November 2003 13:27, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 12:04:32PM +0800, Bernard Blackham wrote:
> | If you have multiple partitions, you can stagger the time between
> | fscks (with tune2fs), so that you won't have one long delay on boot
> | one day, rather some shorter delays more often.
>
> Yep.  But it still takes bloody ages to fsck a ~100G partition :-(

Exactly. ^_^
I've just bought a 120Gb HDD, and given how long a fsck takes on my old small 
drive, I'm a bit wary of the time it'll take on this...

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