Disabling periodic ext3 filesystem checks

Posted by: Andrew Smith
Poster contact info: andrew-smith at mail ru
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Software: Linux All

If you have an ext3 partition on your box, that partition will be checked for errors every 30 times you reboot. This is completely unneessary and adds a few minutes to your boot time.

To disable these checks, run this replacing hda1 with your ext3 partition:
tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/hda1