How do I fsck the / partition on boot but not other partitions ?

[NewtownGuy]

I want to control when various partitions are file system checked so I can always boot quickly and so I can e2fsck /home according to a calendar even if the machine does not reboot often. I have created /home as a separate partition that has most of the disk space. I will force a fsck of /home (with umount, etc) with a cron job.

How do I configure fsck on boot to only do the small '/' partition but not the large /home partition ? I have looked at tune2fs but I do not see a parameter that chooses the filesystem(s) checked -- it only seems to do all of them.

I am running Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS.

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

[lgarner]

Check "man fstab", regarding the sixth field. You can set it to 0, 1 or 2 to determine the order of fsck, or whether it gets checked at all.