When I boot up my Ubuntu system, it often says Routine check of drives and takes forever to boot up.
This is because the routine check is set to a number which is not very high if you don’t reboot often Which may be the case in a server but for a Desktop its an overkill, specially if you boot up a couple of times a day.
With a small change, you can boot up quicker and save time as well.
So here is the solution:
sudo tune2fs -c 100 /dev/sda5
Where
100 is the number of counts after which it should do a routine check.
/dev/sda5 is my ex3 file system, replace this with whatever is your partition number.
If you have more than one, you need to do this for all your ext3 partitions.
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