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On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 02:21:14PM -0000, Damian Brasher wrote:
> Hugo Mills wrote:
>
> > Another solution I've seen recently is to remove the check-on-boot
> > entirely. This in itself is a bad thing, because you then don't get to
> > find random bit-flip data corruptions (which is what the regular
> > fsck-on-boot is for). To get the same effect with no impact on boot
> > times, keep your filesystems in LVM, take a snapshot of each
> > filesystem at regular intervals, and then run fsck on the snapshot.
> > (This advice came from Ted Ts'o, who knows a thing or two about
> > filesystems... :) )
>
> Or, when you have time, boot onto emergency mode from grub by adding
> 'emergency' at the grub command prompt. Login when prompted then fdisk -l to
> view the available partitions then fsck manually.
That requires you to think about it, and involves a reboot and
significant downtime, which nobody is going to do. Ted's solution is
scriptable, (ana)cronnable, and entirely automated.
Hugo.
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