[ale] Basic configuration advice needed.

[Clay Lawrence]

That's what the last number is for after each entry in fstab, it tells fsck what partitions
to check and in what order. A one indicates the bootable partition so you only get to use
it once. After that you can give multiple entries a 2 or 3 or whatever and it will check
them in numerical order and check those with the same number at the same time. It won't get
you anywhere though if your partitions are all on one physical drive since the heads can
only be in one place at a time. It works quite well though if you have multiple drives :-)

Clay

Nick Lucent wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 09:58:12PM -0400, Wandered Inn shook his keyboard and out fell:
> > Protecting root is the primary reason.  There may be others, none I can
> > think of at this time.  I don't know of any performance gains by doing
> > it.
>
> I have heard that it also parallelizes(sp?) fsck, so if your box goes down
> abnormally then it will come back up faster. But I havent seen this work
> (Doesnt on my box, it does all the partitions one at a time.
>
> Nick