Re: Screen Resolution in Kubuntu

In <87646dnb6b.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Nix <nix-razor-pit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The periodic check definitely is necessary with journalling. Filesystem
corruption (or, more accurately, metadata corruption) can happen for
numerous reasons, among them:

OK, I'd better turn the checks back on. I think I'll base it only on
interval-between-checks though and not reenable max-mount-counts because
that's annoying on a machine that gets turned off regularly.

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- controller or RAM problems (intermittent bitflips, often due to
alpha particle absorption from decay of radioisotopes in the chip
housing, but sometimes caused by solar activity and random
wandering neutrons from secondary radiation, runs at about two
bitflips per month per Gb with current densities)

Do they usually get fixed by simple parity checks and only cause a
problem if two or more occur together? Or do they go unnoticed because
they usually affect content rather than its structure?

Basically I'm not sure what would be a suitable interval. Regardless of
drive capacity or usage, one month seems a tad on the inconveniently
frequent side, a year two long for safety. 3 months do you think?

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