paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Howarth) writes: > > are you guys gonna keep batting this around? > > man fstab > > see explanation on 6th field > > What has that got to do with forcing a filesystem check? Nothing but that wasn't the original question. > Gene doesn't want to disable the filesystem check, he just wants it to be > more verbose so it's clear that the system hasn't hung. Quote: "Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware." Meaning that (using Gene's config with hda and hdd), if you happen to have hdaX and hddY and that fsck starts to check them at the same time (or hdaX first), you won't see progress for hddY. -- Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
