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Message from Steven
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James wrote:
>
> I was looking in the archives for a solution to 
> having e2fsck check the hard drive on every boot, 
> as BL 3.5 seems pre-configured to do. 

Yes, by default BL3 checks the filesystem at system
startup.  This is a good idea when running from a
loopfile that resides on a DOS partition.

> It's a bit of a problem on my new laptop since it 
> has a 6 GB hard drive and it takes quite a long while 
> to check. 

Indeed.  BL3 is targetted at systems with only a
fraction of that HD space.

> I found an older post by Steven that describes a way 
> to get e2fsck to check the hard drive not on every single 
> boot, but only when the drive was umounted uncleanly. See 
> https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2007-February/012915.html 
>
> I just want to check whether the resolution to the problem 
> of e2fsck running on every boot as given in that somewhat 
> dated post is still valid. 

Yes, that is still the method I use.  It works well.
If you wish, you could also add a variable that counts 
to 20/50/whatever and does an e2fsck.  Or you could
simply do a e2fsck manually at the beginning of each 
week/month/whatever (which is what I do).

Cheers,
Steven