It does not require a monthly fsck. I've set mine to once every 6 months. Been running like that since 2006 or so on many systems. Just do: tune2fs -i 6m /dev/p

It does not require a monthly fsck. I've set mine to once every 6 months. Been running like that since 2006 or so on many systems. Just do: tune2fs -i 6m /dev/path/to/device