Howdy, As most everyone knows, I have some large file systems here. Mostly videos. These are encrypted until I open/unlock them. So, when I am on those rare occasions booting up, there's no way to run fsck on them automatically. I basically have two questions on this. 1: How often should I open but not mount the file system and run fsck on it? Once a month, two months, six months, a year or what. 2: Also, what is a command that you use that will fix most things without asking a lot of questions but not do anything that will damage or potentially damage a file? Basically, what command would you use for a situation like this? The man page shows a option for all 'yes' but there may be times when 'yes' isn't a good idea. I'm wondering if someone has came up with a way to handle this with some option I'm not aware of.
Right now I use the command e2fsck -pf /dev/mapper/<mount point here> to check it but it ignores some things that it would usually fix if I were being asked first. Something about things could be smaller. It's usually a LOT of them. I'd like those to be corrected as well. Maybe running the check twice with different options will fix it all???? Current info. FILESYSTEM (=) USED FREE (-) %USED USED AVAILABLE TOTAL MOUNTED ON /dev/mapper/crypt [==========================================--------] 83.8% 39.5T 7.6T 47.1T /home/dale/Desktop/Crypt /dev/mapper/data [==============================================----] 91.7% 43.2T 3.9T 47.1T /home/dale/Desktop/Data I'm thinking about adding a 18 or 20TB drive to data. I got a empty one in my safe as a spare. May need to buy a couple more drives soon. Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
