Default fs check options - change!

audiodef

I just booted up a system with a 1 TB drive and it decided to do a default 23-boot check.

Pause. Wait 5 minutes. Twiddle thumbs. Contemplate nature of universe.

I'd like to suggest that the interval be set to 0 by default and that every 60 or so boots a message can appear that it might be good to regularly check your fs.

Seriously, I can't imagine those with multi-TB drives. Might as well go to bed if they all check at once.

(Yes, I know about tune2fs. I'm talking about changing the default Gentoo behaviour.)
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phajdan.jr · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 11:21 am Post subject:

How about suggesting that on bugs.gentoo.org or gentoo-dev ML?
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d2_racing · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 12:44 pm Post subject:

Indeed, and for the record, how long does it take to check a fs on a 1 TB hdd ?

With a EXT4 partition, I see that the check for a 100 gigs is really fast if you compare with ext3.

audiodef · Posted: Thu Oct 28, 2010 1:42 pm Post subject:

About five minutes, maybe a little longer.

I wanted to use ext4 but I had some trouble setting it up. I'll try it again on the next new drive I plug in.

Suggested! https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=343079
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audiodef · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 2:02 pm Post subject:

If you look at this bug report now, you'll see exactly why I normally don't file bugs or make suggestions. Pretty much everything is "No. Now shut up. WE know everything and WE will decide what's right for the user".

Fortunately, the very nature of Gentoo circumvents such fascistic control, so whatever! :twisted:

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Ant P. · Watchman Joined: 18 Apr 2009 Posts: 6920

I don't see the problem. fsck.ext4 takes seconds on my ~900GB /home partition.

audiodef · Posted: Fri Oct 29, 2010 6:35 pm Post subject:

ext3 = excessively long waits.
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EatMeerkats · Apprentice Joined: 15 Mar 2006 Posts: 234

Etal · Veteran Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 1931

From my experience, an ext3 converted to ext4 filesystem fsck is still significantly slower that a fresh ext4, probably since most of the sructures are left unchanged.

Also, if you don't like fsck, doesn't changing the pass column in fstab to zero disable it?