> > Lindsay Sprinter <[email protected]> writes: > > > During the twenty years I have never seen one of these "scheduled" > > fsck's produce any errors caused by a failure in the drive or the file > > system. Errors have been produced a small number of times but they > > have been caused by externel influences [...] So in the end one could > > probably turn it off as has already been suggested and lose no sleep > > over it. > > IIRC I've seen it due to dying HDDs, so I would add an erratum that if you > turn > off periodic fscks of ext, make sure to turn on periodic SMART checks. >
Even if you leave periodic fscks on, still do SMART checks. The two solve fairly different problems. James _______________________________________________ luv-main mailing list [email protected] http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-main
