[arch-general] unclean filesystem

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On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Enrico Carlesso <enrico at ecarlesso.org> wrote:
> On 01/21/2010 09:11 PM, christopher floess wrote:
>>
>> Uh, this might be a quick question, since it's a little abstract.
>>
>> I'm dual booting and I've noticed that every time I boot into Arch after
>> I've booted into one of my other systems, there is a forced file system
>> check. It's not a huge deal, because I use Arch almost exclusively, but I
>> have to say, I cringe at the thought of having to boot into one of the other
>> systems now.
>>
>> How would you trouble shoot this? I have also never seen a system where
>> after every ~20 reboots, a file system check is mandatory. This might just
>> be my ignorance here, so a reference to some background about that part of
>> the boot process might suffice.
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> -- chris
>>
> Is the other operative system a windows? Maybe the hardware clock is
> continuously changing, so the last write looks like in the future?
>
^ what he said

Also, the hard disk check can be set. I set mine to every 30 days
(previously was rebooting up to 10 times a day from playing with
kernel configs). Its not a hard-coded check, and can be (I think)
cancelled with Ctrl-C, based on some other mails going around here a
few days back.