On Feb 28, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Roland RoLaNd <r_o_l_a_...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Dear all, > > I'm trying to find a way to automate checkdisk every 1 month on a weekend. > in other words i want checkdisk to run every saturday morning. > > i can of course change the default mount/count though that wont let me > control WHEN it will happen. > > so i need your expert opinion with the following if possible: > > 1. reboot into single user mode > 2. start checkdisk for all disks > 3. once done, reboot into runlevel 3 > > i've did a certain script that force checkdisk at night if there's a bad > sector using the badblocks command though that's not enough. > > > > PS: i was thinking of something of this sort: > > 1 4 * sat /bin/touch /forcefsck;reboot > 1 1 * sun rm /forcefsck I would take a snapshot and run fsck against the snapshot, if it reports clean then nothing needs done, if it reports dirty then you need to bring it into maintenance mode and do a fsck with cleanup options. -Ross _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
