On 02/18/2008 03:12 AM, Adam Jimerson wrote:
Yea doing that to my root partition would not make sense, but I should have added that it would be for /home and things like external HDDs that was formatted to ext3. That is much less of a problem, especially for a system that is on most of the time. You could easily create a script that ran from cron that umount /home fsck.ext3 -C -p /dev/(partition for home) mount /home or something a bit more elaborate. From what I have seen from both my laptop and desktop, both have a 120 GB SATA HDD, the root partition is the smallest that gets checked and takes about 30 seconds to do. No problem for me its just 30 seconds more, so it feels like openSUSE 10.2's boot time but that is no problem. The problem is my /home partition takes a while on both machines to run so I figured if I can run it while they are idle then when my systems it the 60 it would only have to scan my root. Understood. That idea sounds good, and pretty easily done. I'm also planning on getting an external HDD and mount it on my laptop for backups, I use this more than my desktop, and I have yet to decided on a file format for it, but if I do go with ext3 then I can also just check that by hand.
I do this, and have the file system check as part of the backup script. Since it isn't always connected, I think to make it a part of the backup script makes more sense. Mine also umounts it (wherever it was mounted), checks it, then mounts it where I want it.
How can the check be done, is it part of tune2fs, or is it a different command?
The command depends on the file system. -- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org