On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, writes: > >... I was wondering if/how was possible to do some kind of > >scheduled-fsck checks for those machines that never reboot > > You can run 'fsck -f -n. This will (according to the man page) do nothing to > the file system, but should let you know if there are any problems requiring > attention.
This might cause problems with processes trying to write to the filesystems as the check is going on. My solution is to define a separate runlevel that brings the system down to single user mode, unmounts the filesystem, fsck all of them, and restarts the system into run-level 2. -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
