On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 11:51:01PM -0400, Michael Soulier wrote: > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, Pollywog wrote: > > > About half the time that I experience power failures, I need to run fsck on > > my > > Debian system. > > So, have you had to reinstall packages? With RedHat/Mandrake, I > would immediately do an rpm -Va to verify everything, but I quickly found > out that several packages would complain about being broken even after a > fresh install, so the information was useless. > I'm still getting deeper into Debian's packaging tools. > > I tried running sync on a cronjob every hour, but it didn't help > much. I never understood why Linux seemed so vulnerable to this. I've had > the system crippled for hours with corrupt files while I reinstall > packages. Not since installing Debian, but considering what you've said > here, maybe I've been lucky.
Try mounting your drive with the options noatime,sync and then install noflushd which will cause a sync/powerdown of drive when there is no activity. HTH > > Mike > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://jmmv.cjb.net
