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You can disable the splash screen and instead view details about your boot process by following the next steps: 1. Edit grub sudo vi /etc/default/grub 2. Locate the following line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash" and remove quiet and splash. After that, the line should look like this: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="" 3. Save and exit. :wq 4. Now update the [...]

In Ubuntu the boot hard disk is checked every 20 boots. I have to boot my laptop quite often, so about once a week booting takes more than 10 minutes. This clearly sucks. Fortunately, there is an easy way to fix this. With tune2fs it is possible to change the interval from mount-times to timed [...]