Ubuntu
e2fsprogs package

  1. Bug #268808
  2. Comment #12

Comment 12 for bug 268808

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: [Bug 268808] Re: superblock last write time is in the future

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 09:14 +0000, Rob Speer wrote:

> This happens to me because I dual boot, and Windows and Linux disagree
> about what time zone to set the system clock to. If Windows decides to
> change the time (which it sees as local EDT) to what the Internet says
> it is, and Linux is expecting to see UTC, then if I reboot into Linux
> after less than four hours in Windows I get dumped to the root shell and
> have to run fsck.
>
You should make sure you have UTC=no in /etc/default/rcS - then Windows
and Linux will agree on the time.

Scott
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