On 10/28/2012 09:13 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote:
On 10/28/2012 03:29 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
On 10/27/2012 07:42 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:
You can put an fsck command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.
Steven Yellin
On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:
Hi All,
SL 6.2, x64
I have an "ext 4" drive (/dev/sdb1) I use for backup that is
deliberately not in my fstab.
"touch /forcefsck" will only force a check on my main ("/")
drive.
Question: is there a way to trigger an an fsck at boot on
this backup drive?
Many thanks,
-T
Thank you. Thank will work.
Actually, I am trying to solve the mystery of how to get it to
fsck at the same time as "touch /forcefsck". Do you know
how to do this?
Many thanks,
-T
Hi Todd,
Have you perused through tune2fs(8) to notice you may set a
max-mount-counts to 1 or maybe a daily interval-between-checks to 1d?
Why are you so adverse to an fstab entry? If you specify option
"noauto" it won't be mounted on boot, but it *might* fsck with the others.
Hi Chris,
Only certain scripts need access or even need to know this drive exists.
I deliberately do not have it in my fstab. I use this drive as you
would a removable flash drive.
What I am up to is trying to see if there is any clue as to why
I drop to maintenance mode every so often with a message that
fsck can not lock the drive because it is in use. Our intrepid
heroes at Red Hat are troubleshooting this for me:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836696
"cat /proc/mounts" in maintenance mode does not even show the drive as
mounted (it is not suppose to be). And "lsof" shows nothing accessing
the drive (it is not mounted).
I am just digging around looking for any clue that might help them.
I just used your suggestion on "tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/lin-bak"
and posted it to the bug.
Thank you for the help,
-T
