On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 04:54:09PM +0100, Hugh Saunders wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 04:09:34PM +0200, Gavriel FLEISCHER wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 08:48:32AM +0100, Hugh Saunders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > battery? or can i pass a kernel parameter to prevent fsck? > > > > if test -x /usr/bin/on_ac_power > > then > > #do the stuff > > fi > > > > on_ac_power is in powermgmt-base.deb > > > > > > > [using ext3] > > Well I have the last column of /etc/fstab set to 0 on ext3 filesystems. No > > fsck at all. When needed recovery is done automatically anyway (max 5 sec). > ah, so fsck isnt needed with ext3? ihad noticed that after a crash it > doesnt fsck, it does ext3 recovery but it does fsck every 30 something > mounts. If fsck isnt necessary ill tune2fs to prevent fsck and the > battery thing will be irelevent :D
An occasional fsck is a Good Thing, even on a journalled filesystem like ext3 or reiserfs. If the filesystem knows it is corrupt, it will fix it, however, if the corruption happens without ext3 knowing about it - due to a bug in the kernel, say - the filesystem will stay corrupt until something forces a fsck. You could make it less frequent, and set it to a time period rather than a number of remounts (see tune2fs -i), especially if you don't reboot the machine often. hth -- /__ \_|\/ /\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
