Monday, May 9, 2011

Disable the fsck on boot

  1. Boot the system from boot disc 1 or an ISO image of the installation media
  2. Once the system has successfully booted from the ISO image and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot screen will appears, type: "linux rescue" without the quotes, and hit enter at the prompt.
  3. Select "Continue" when prompted to allow the rescue environment to mount Red Hat Enterprise Linux installation under /mnt/sysimage directory.
  4. Type "chroot /mnt/sysimage"
  5. Then edit /etc/fstab
  6. In this file, in the very last column for each mount point, there is a number.  Changing this number to a 0 (zero) will make it so that it does not try to fsck that mount point on boot.
  7. Save the file
  8. Reboot or CTRL+D
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Brett said...

You could also set it at the filesystem level using tune2fs for ext3 filesystems:

# tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/

where is the filesystem - sda1, mapper/VolGroup1-LogVol1 or whatever.

April 10, 2012 at 10:03 PM

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