Okay, will integrate this time factor now. The only reason I didn't have it before was that I didn't have accurate figures.

TBH, I don't either (we didn't intend for it to go so long between progress updates, but fsck "pauses" for much longer than we anticipated on very big, very full disks). That guesstimate was largely based on the timestamps on this BBS's collection of "Oh, ignore my previous post, it's done it now" messages

Normally, how many synchs between disk checks?

20, or six months, whichever happens first.

Peter