![]() Since checking your disks regularly is a good idea, I set up a cron job to do that once a week… the world was a sweet place again. chkntfs /x C The command /x is used to disable the auto-check for the selected drive. Here C refers to the disk on which you want to stop disk checking at Startup. Make sure that you have launched it with administrative privileges. So all I had to do was to change the “one” to “zero” and the forced check was disabled. Choose Command Prompt on your Windows 11. A value of zero means do-not-check and any other positive number tells the system to check that storage device at boot. We’re concerned only with the last digit because that is the information ubuntu uses to decide whether to force a disk check or not. ![]() A typical line in this file looks like this: Use file explorer to copy any files you need to save to USB or hdd. ![]() ![]() on screen after languages, choose repair this pc, not install. That’s the file that controls how most of your storage devices are mounted. change boot order so USB is first, hdd second. There is a simpler way of doing this and it involves editing that sweet little configuration file – /etc/fstab. In last week’s post, I described how to use the tune2fs utility to influence the system’s decision to force a disk check on ext3 file systems that utility is useless with FAT32 file systems. This is intolerable on an intel core 2 duo with 1GB of RAM… even my old pentium II takes 1 minute 15 seconds to become fully armed. That increased the boot time to something like four minutes. After the installation, ubuntu started forcing a disk check on the 80GB partition AT EVERY BOOT. Anyway, she dual boots with MS Windows on a 120GB hard drive and her disk structure is your typical dual boot kind – 20GB ntfs partition for windows, 15GB ext3 partition with a 2GB swap partition for Ubuntu, and an 80GB fat32 data partition. I got even more irritated by this ridiculous behaviour this week when I reinstalled Ubuntu 7.04 on my sister’s laptop… it was actually a downgrade from 7.10 and I might go into the reasons behind that in a later post. Last week, I expressed my distaste for the way Ubuntu (and most linux distros) forces disk checks on users.
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