On 2013-10-03 08:52, David Lang wrote:
In practice, you need to be quite an expert to do anything other than -y, and
even then you will probably only do so if the disk has data on it that you
cannot recover any other way.
for just about any production situation, you would want to build a new system
or restore from replica/backup instead of doing a manual fsck, but that
assumes that you _have_ the backup and can correctly recreate the server,
which should be the case, but sometimes isn't ;-p
Agreed. I've had unmountable filesystems after an "fsck -y", but also
filesystems that could be mounted but with corrupted files, although those two
occurrence have been very rare, most of the time it does recover to what seems
a perfect good shape.
Since we're on the subject, has anybody else used JFS on Linux extensively?
I have used it quite a bit before ext4 was available, and my experience with
it was that recovering unclean filesystems was much faster, and I also never
failed to recover one, which hasn't been the case with ext2/3/4, but this
could be an issue of sample size (most companies, even in the ext2 days, were
not comfortable with JFS).
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Yves. http://www.SollerS.ca/
Unix/Linux and Python specialist in Calgary.
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