[Techtalk] Linux on NTFS?

[Travis Casey]

On Jan 11, 2006, at 11:03 AM, Mike wrote:

> I suggest Reiserfs. I feel it is superior to ext3. I have my lappy  
> using
> ext3 and it has to check itself every 21 starts or so and it is  
> annoying and
> always seems to happen at inopportune times.

It doesn't *have* to -- that's a controllable setting.  You can use  
tune2fs to change it:

---
On each filesystem to be converted (normally, all the ext2  
filesystems), do:

tune2fs -c 0 -i 30 -j /dev/hda1
substituting in turn each affected device. You can do this safely  
with the device mounted.
Adjust -c and -i according to local policy: -c means check every N  
mounts; 0 disables it, and it's kind of irrelevant in a datacenter  
environment. -i means check every N days, here, at the next reboot if  
30 days have gone by.

---

Most distros by default set it where an ext3 filesystem will get  
checked sometimes, but you can reset it.  :-)

--
Travis S. Casey           efindel at earthlink.net
I am an evil kitten!  Mew-ha-ha!