2011/11/11 Ivan Jager <[email protected]>: > On Wed, Nov 09, 2011 at 07:40:49PM +0100, Robert Millan scribbled: > [...] >> e2fsck runs a forced check after 20 mounts or 6 months since last >> check, whichever comes first. >> >> For a system that's used regularly 20 mounts is basically one month. > > You must have *very* unstable systems. :P If you have a > reasonably stable system you get a forced check every time you > reboot. > > At any rate, e2fsck is a bit different from mdadm or zfs scrub in > that the former requires the fs to be unmounted, so it can't be > done in the background. So, monthly should be fine, and in the > cases where it's not there should be an admin who can change it.
I've set it to monthly. Thanks for your feedback! -- Robert Millan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caofdtxmvhzwvrbylqn0jsebdwqfra4g+jnvhg7wgbhh4cq+...@mail.gmail.com
