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This is truly very annoying and completely pointless. Ext3 on modern kernels is very robust. There's no need for extra paranoia every 30 reboots.
In fact, Ubuntu is the only distribution that I'm using that does this. If periodic fsck would truly be needed, I would notice file system corruption on the other systems. That does not occur. The last time I saw that was many years ago with an experimental ReiserFS.
I'm running Fedora and CentOS on a variety of machines, including laptops, sometimes these systems get powercycled, yet there's no corruption.
Heck, my wife's laptop running Vista gets powercycled every once in a while and yet there are no issues with the filesystem.
And yet the Ubuntu machine makes me waste several minutes every 30 reboots for nothing.
fsck every 30 boots is so 1997. Please let's all enter the new millenium already.
Thanks!