Periodic File System Checking (fsck) Disabled in 13.10

[Dennis N]

Checked for logs on older systems. Only Ubuntu 8.04 has an entry - see below (apparently they are made daily on startup). The others (like 12.04) say "nothing logged yet" as the bug says. But, as I said, the fsck program is interactive and should still perform its check and if warranted, repair functions so I will keep it activated. I see nothing to gain by leaving it disabled, and plenty to lose. I takes only a minute or so extra time every 40 boots as I have it set.

Ubuntu 8.04 fsck log entry (there are none for past days, just the current session):

dn@dell-desktop:/var/log/fsck$ cat checkroot
Log of fsck -C3 -a -t ext3 /dev/sda3 
Mon Oct 28 19:55:21 2013

fsck 1.40.8 (13-Mar-2008)
/dev/sda3: clean, 413455/4800512 files, 13505578/19200038 blocks

EDIT: In newer releases, this information is now part of /var/log/boot.log
Boot log lines from Lubuntu 12.10:

fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
Lubuntu-1210: clean, 304033/1921360 files, 2807004/7680000 blocks

This partition checked has a label which is why you see "Lubuntu-1210" (the label) rather than /dev/sda1

[drmrgd]

Interesting. Running 12.04 here, and it seems it's turned off by default on my system too:

$ sudo dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc3 | grep -i "mount count"
dumpe2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
Mount count:              38
Maximum mount count:      -1

Here's something odd, though. That's the partition for my Home dir. If I look at root, I see that it's been mounted 14 fewer times!

$ sudo dumpe2fs -h /dev/sdc2 | grep -i "mount count"
dumpe2fs 1.42 (29-Nov-2011)
Mount count:              24
Maximum mount count:      -1

How is that possible?

Anyway, I think I'll turn this on too. It is always nice knowing that the filesystem is being kept in good condition.

[Dennis N]

I found that fsck log is now part of var/log/boot.log

Example from this machine's boot.log, lines 1-2:

fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
Lubuntu-1210: clean, 304033/1921360 files, 2807004/7680000 blocks