Brad Sawatzky wrote:
On Wed, 05 Apr 2006, Mike McCarty wrote:Ali Milis wrote:Johannes Wiedersich wrote:The debian default of my sarge installations is that the ext3-FS are fsck'ed about every 30 mounts or 180 days (whatever comes first).This is just my Euro 0.01 opinion: 180 days is reasonable for new disks. Perhaps you would like to lower it when your disk goes old.[ . . . ]A related question is how to do it without taking the machine down uncleanly or fiddling an arcane file somewhere. I've thought about perhaps doing... $ mount -o remount -o ro /dev/hda5 $ fsck /dev/hda5 $ mount -o remount -o rw /dev/hda5 (I have /dev/hda5 mounted as / on my machine.) Is there any exposure in this? I'm pretty leery of running fsck on a r/w file system.Running fsck on a r/w file system is a Bad Plan(TM). (I don't think fsck will even do it without a force flag.)
You don't seem to be responding to what I wrote. Did you intend to?
My issue is whether remounting / as ro, doing the fsck, and the
remounting rw looks reasonable. I don't need confirmation that
a mounted rw file system should not be fsck'd.
Mike
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