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Asked: 2010-12-10 20:30:01 +0800 CST

Is there a way to reduce the avarage time it takes to fsck a device?

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I don't want to avoid doing a fsck, but I would like to know if there is a better approach so it doesn't take ages to complete the process when it runs after a reboot 180 days later.

If you had it ran 20 days ago and then do it again, will it be faster or it does a full check all the time and it would be meaningless to do such thing ?

What would be the best practice to keep it up to date and yet minimize the time it takes to recheck each run ?

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  1. Best Answer

    Running fsck more often won't help.

    What will help is using ext4 instead of ext3. This is an explicit design goal of the updated filesystem.

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  2. Switch to XFS. Fsck scans will become instant.

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  3. Delete all unnecessary files. fsck's time is proportional to the number of files it checks.

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