Re: fsck in the background

2006-07-26 Thread RW
On Wednesday 26 July 2006 02:03, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jul 25), Michael P. Soulier said: > > A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to > > wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home > > (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in tha

Re: fsck in the background

2006-07-25 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 25/07/06 Dan Nelson said: > It logs an error to syslog, and the next time you reboot it forces a > foreground check so it can prompt you for instructions. Ah. I'd better look for that then. :) > You should be using ext3 on Linux :) Been there, done that, experienced the file corruption. It p

Re: fsck in the background

2006-07-25 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 25), Michael P. Soulier said: > A while ago there was a power failure in my house, long enough to > wear down the UPS. I had to power-on my server when I got home > (crappy bios), and I noticed after I logged-in that fsck was running > non-interactively in the background. >