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I notice in my /etc/fstab that my root partition has 1 in the <pass> column, and my home partition has 2 in the <pass> column.

This is expected. From man pages:

The sixth field, (fs_passno), is used by the fsck(8) program to determine the order in which filesystem checks are done at reboot time. The root filesystem should be specified with a fs_passno of 1, and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware.

My ntfs partitions have <pass> 0. Manpages again:

If the sixth field is not present or zero, a value of zero is returned and fsck will assume that the filesystem does not need to be checked.

Why are ntfs partitions not checked?

spraff
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