Other Distros (NOT A FLAMEWAR TOPIC!!)

[Derek Broughton]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On Monday 10 April 2006 14:46, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>
>> Well, that's not really ext3 style - it's ext2 style.  It's just
>> that converting to ext3 doesn't change those defaults.  When I did
>> use ext3 I turned that off without any (apparent) problem.
> 
> Why did you do that? 
 
On the advice of others.

> I would imagine that the addition of a journal 
> doesn't change the need for the underlying ext2 to be regularly
> fsck'ed. Journaling is an effort to maintain data integrity, not
> filesystem integrity

A "check every 30 mounts" scenario is pretty ridiculous for a laptop.  It
gets even stranger now that hibernate works well for most hardware.  I
could go six months with an ext2 system and _never_ get an fsck, anyway. 

So I'll check a system occasionally - manually - but I was told that every 3
to 6 months should be good enough for an ext3 system.  I don't know if
that's good advice, but it seemed to work.  otoh, I've had this laptop
running reiser for 18 months, and I'm concerned, because last time I tried
to manually fsck when there appeared to be a problem, there was nothing I
could actually do about it.
-- 
derek