clayton bcmel25gmailcom people install opensuse laptop home pc shut every night right expecting tune2fs experienced user might mind new users understand novell chose set ext3 default file system know prefer pick one list custom partitioning leave new users people new linux people clue ext3 reiser etc laptops less susceptible filesystem corruption certainly possibly due thumps bumps laptop endure named laptops simply typically booted uprebooted much often typical server go months even years without restart regular restarts possibly even several per day laptop user going bump fsck x number boots thing lot sooner person new user new linux going rather annoyed frustrated personal experience heated phone call friend exactly problemexperience laptop usually experience laptop user needs fast boot opensuse reasonable time ext3 fsck never problem dont put everything one huge 80 gb filesystem several smaller filesystesm fsck faster amount disk space one large partition right inexperienced user ext3 problem us long time linux users know ext3s forced fsck plan know partition drives reduce impact fsck know file systems often select ones job requires go tinker tune2fs happy setup talking need solve issue experienced users talking new users people new linux opensuse defaults well discussed reason ext3 fine ext3 gotcha form mandatory fsck currently handled nicely bit surprise new users computer running _default_ opensuse suddenly decides particular boot time check least one enhancement bug open discussed elsewhere thread maybe improve things bit new users c wed 06 aug 2008 203550 0100 opensuse ext3 check forced frustration