What do other people do on (home) servers for checking large ext3 or other journaling filesystems?
It always seems to be the lesser convenient time for a fsck to run when I reboot for a kernel update, even though the count frequency and maximal time are at increased values right now. A 1 TB disk full of my ripped CDs can take a while to fsck... As per the man page, I'm not sure it's really a good idea to set tune2fs -i/-c to 0/-1 (never) and then never fsck. But I'm thinking I could do do that AND set a calender or other reminder for me to do a forced reboot and forced check every (how long?). I can reboot and check when fscking time won't be a bother. I should add that the server runs md RAID1 and is on a UPS. It very rarely goes down for other than a proper shutdown/reboot - now that I don't have a buggy nvidia driver :-p. (My VPS host in Toronto had a reboot last year and their fscking took fscking hours to run... THAT was a bother.) Or maybe ext3 is so reliable I can turn checking off forever? What do you think? Brett _______________________________________________ Linux mailing list [email protected] http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux
