Quick question(s) re dosfsck

When I boot, dosfsck is reporting that the two copies of the
boot sector
don't match. Does anyone know a relatively easy way to fix
this?

Also, which script is being executed that is calling dosfsck
during
boot? After it reports the above problem, the bootup script
grinds for
about 4-5 minutes before continuing. I'm guessing that it's
scanning the
vfat partition. I'd like to modify the script to only do
that  disk scan
about every 10th time I boot. When it does the scan, it's
taking me
about 5 minutes to complete a boot - which is silly.

Thanks in advance.
---Michael



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Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can comment on this one
if I get it 
wrong, but I think you can change the options in the
/etc/fstab file to 
skip checking VFAT partitions.

I believe it's the last option in the line in question.

A relevant line from my /etc/fstab file is:

UUID=42D2-898B  /media/data     vfat   
defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 
       0

(Line may wrap)

Change the last number (probably 1) in the line referencing
your drive 
to a 0 and everything should be hunky-dory.

I had the same issue with a large file on my VFAT partition
- am ISO 
file got truncated to 0 bytes because of this.

Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> When I boot, dosfsck is reporting that the two copies
of the boot sector
> don't match. Does anyone know a relatively easy way to
fix this?
> 
> Also, which script is being executed that is calling
dosfsck during
> boot? After it reports the above problem, the bootup
script grinds for
> about 4-5 minutes before continuing. I'm guessing that
it's scanning the
> vfat partition. I'd like to modify the script to only
do that  disk scan
> about every 10th time I boot. When it does the scan,
it's taking me
> about 5 minutes to complete a boot - which is silly.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> ---Michael
> 
> 
> 

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On Sat, 2006-12-30 at 08:15 +0800, The Joker wrote:
> Perhaps someone more knowledgeable can comment on this
one if I get it 
> wrong, but I think you can change the options in the
/etc/fstab file to 
> skip checking VFAT partitions.
> 
> I believe it's the last option in the line in question.
> 
> A relevant line from my /etc/fstab file is:
> 
> UUID=42D2-898B  /media/data     vfat   
defaults,utf8,umask=007,gid=46 0 
>        0
> 
> (Line may wrap)
> 
> Change the last number (probably 1) in the line
referencing your drive 
> to a 0 and everything should be hunky-dory.
That's how I fixed it. Remember to file bugs for annoying
user issues
like this.

Here's the bug report for this one:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/d
osfstools/+bug/59293

Duncan

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