[chatterjee]

My Ubuntu 7.04 is working working almost perfectly except a problem.Whenevrer I try to boot into Ubuntu the progress bar stops in the middle and open up a black screen where it checks the filesystem and other things.In the whole long list there is a line that goes "...hdb1 has not been checked for ..... days...".Then the computer restarts and Ubuntu boots normally.Where is the problem?

BTW,my system clock is not right.

[saikee]

Ubuntu likes to check the files in every partition it can lay its hand one on.

You can tell it to stop by editing the /etc/fstab and make each partition mounting instruction ending with the last two digits as "0 0".

You should leave the "/" untouched though.

[prunejuice]

It happens to me on every 30th boot, I believe.

Handy feature, it is. You can change it if you wish.

[chatterjee]

The list is long and the screen disappears too fast to be wholly copied.But in the middle of the list it says something like...."fsck died with exit status....[FAILED]..." Why is it showing?There must be something wrong.

Thanks in advace...

[briealeida]

You can view your boot logs. I think this information would all be there.

Look in /var/log I'm not near an Ubuntu machine right now. But that's where it is in, wait, let me check what distro this is, OK, CentOS. lol.

[chatterjee]

CMOS battery was the culprit!Replacing it solved the problem.

[superbungalow]

what exactly is "the /etc/fstab" anyway???

[saikee]

It is a text file telling the kernel all the partitions it "must" mount. In it it will have the "/" or the root directory of the Linux, Swap partition and all the other partitions the user wishes to see available.

[briealeida]

Here are two sites that may interest you if you wish to learn more:

http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2006/0...mystified.html
http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/fstab.html

[superbungalow]

oh, thanks.