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List:       suse-linux-e
Subject:    Re: [SLE] 9.0 - FSCKing drive on a daily basis
From:       Nick LeRoy <nleroy () cs ! wisc ! edu>
Date:       2004-07-23 18:23:42
Message-ID: 200407231323.42531.nleroy () cs ! wisc ! edu
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On Fri July 23 2004 8:52 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
> Nick LeRoy wrote:
> > On Thu July 22 2004 6:40 am, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote lots about
> > how he fsck's his drives daily:
>
> [snip]
>
> >>Moving on with this would require me to stop being paranoid about the fs
> >>and also to revert the fsck check frequency to what they were before I
> >>messed with them.
>
> [snip]
>
> > It can do both, and that's I think what it defaults to, and probably a
> > Good Thing(tm).
>
> Is there a way to set the fsck program back to its default checking
> period as I cannot remember seeing anything in the man pages about it?
> Would anyone perhaps have a system where they have not messed with fsck
> and be able to provide me with the default period?

You can't do that directly, but you can reset the individual parameters:

tune2fs -l shows me that the defaults are (cut from a lot of info):
Maximum mount count:      30
Check interval:           15552000 (6 months)

-Nick


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