Re: fsck in the background

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 02:03, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 25), Michael P. Soulier said: A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in that fsck

fsck in the background

2006-07-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in that fsck was running non-interactively in the background. Question: If it finds problems that require administrator

Re: fsck in the background

2006-07-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 25), Michael P. Soulier said: A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in that fsck was running non-interactively in the background.

Re: fsck in the background

2006-07-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/07/06 Dan Nelson said: It logs an error to syslog, and the next time you reboot it forces a foreground check so it can prompt you for instructions. Ah. I'd better look for that then. :) You should be using ext3 on Linux :) Been there, done that, experienced the file corruption. It