17 Apr
2010
17 Apr
'10
9:14 a.m.
Hello,
On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 09:09:52AM +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
On 17/04/10 05:41, Andy Smith wrote:
You *can* force a fsck on next boot by doing:
$ sudo shutdown -r -F
You can also do an fsck in read-only mode and if it finds
problems you know then to do the reboot:
$ sudo e2fsck -fvn /dev/xvda
So these are ways for people to periodically do an fsck or know they
need to do a single user mode one, without waiting until the host is
rebooted.
So anyway, say I went through and disabled time-based fsck and told
everyone I'd done so by emailing them directly, explained I don't
mind if you switched it back on, and said how. Would that be OK?
Cheers,
Andy
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Would it bother you if you one day discovered
that time-based fsck
had been disabled for you without your knowledge since you aren't on
this mailing list?
It probably would actually - even though ext3 rarely goes wrong it has
happened to me a couple of times before.