On Saturday 25 January 2003 01:26 pm, Lemuel Tomas wrote:
> on redhat systems there is a file you can edit to put in fsck parameters,
i just looked on my notebook (mandrake 98% of the time, windows only
to play Age of Empires II :), and in /etc/sysconfig there is a file named
autofsck. there i can specify autofsck.
> word of caution: some people dont like to autofsck becuase of the potential
> data loss they MAY result, you've better have a backup protocol in place to
> save your data.
hehe, i don't understand fsck enough to give it intelligent answers anyway
when i do a manual fsck. i just say yes to anything. doing auto-fsck will
be more of the same except i don't need to be there :). thanks a lot for
the pointer! that'll be very useful.
generally only the filesystem with /var (its own filesystem or somewhere
other than / because of this) is the one that needs to be manually fsck-ed.
i don't think i've ever had to fsck any of the others, even / (which has
/tmp in it). the box is mostly just a dialup server which is sometimes
used for surfing and games. there's not a lot of data there, and the
data that is, is on a filesystem that doesn't get touched a lot. so i'm
not worried about data loss. the real data *does* get backed up to
another computer hard drive.
> hope this helps,
oh, lots, i think. thanks again.
tiger
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