On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, James Harper <[email protected]> wrote: > Is a routine fsck on ext* filesystems still recommended, or just done > because "that's the way we've always done it"?
It's been a while since I've seen anything noteworthy happen on such a fsck. But I guess it depends on how paranoid you are. On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, James Harper <[email protected]> wrote: > I wonder if the following would be valid, assuming you are using LVM: > > 1. take an LVM snapshot > 2. fsck the LVM snapshot > 3. if the fsck of the snapshot is good, reset the mount count and/or time > last checked interval of the origin fs. If the fsck was bad, do the > unmount and fsck (or mark the fs as requiring an fsck next boot if the fs > cannot be unmounted) 4. email the results Yes, that's a good option. -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/ _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
