Help - Turn off U9.04 forced filesystem check completely - how ?

[jenaniston]

I figure I am definitely lucky to get anything from a USB Ubuntu 9.04 installed
via a campus Dell - and then run on a " broken" Sharp AL27 laptop -
I am trying to rescue files off the unbootable Windows XP FAT32 partition.

After the 25th mount - while still working on getting this USB OS working better on the laptop -
I now have to start it all over again - filesystem check fails and won't boot on eithe r the Dell or Sharp laptop now.

I understand the - usually desirable - system filecheck can be turned off completely.
http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2008/11/ubuntu-30-mount-check-annoyance.html

I need to do exactly that for this temporary, but very useful, "jerry-rig" USB pendrive OS installation -
at least for a while before I can install over Windows completely.

How can I do that please ?
Running in terminal mode as root is about all I can do on the laptop,
although the Jaunty desktop was starting to come more to life (fix USB mouse etc.)

Thank you very much.

[doas777]

in your /etc/fstab file, you will notice two numbers on the end of each line. change the last number to 0, and the volume will not be scanned. if you do want it scanned, use a number greater than 0, that is the order in which you want your disks checked.

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

[jenaniston]

. . . /etc/fstab file, you will notice two numbers on the end of each line. change the last number to 0, and the volume will not be scanned. . . .

http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

Excellent info on the fstab options . . .

This will also be very important to me after I get all this back set-up again . .

I'll check to see how etc/fstab lists those laptop Windows XP partitions . . .
the one 25 GB extended FAT32 partition mounted automatically on my U9.04 jerry-rig USB OS Jaunty Desktop -
but the 35 GB primary partition did NOT (and I'll worry if it is even able to be mountable) -
that is the partition with the "broken" XP OS and the files I want rescued.

The parted utility did NOT recognize that sick partition as even having a filesystem or a boot flag,
while sfdisk -l and fdisk -l did list the primary partition as FAT32 with boot flag -
these fstab settings may help explain why there was a difference between how
the partition utilities recognize the disk "slices" (borrowing unix terminology).
I hope that is all it is.

Thank you very much.