https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=362585 Summary: Yast Module for Repairing File System Product: openSUSE 10.3 Version: Final Platform: All OS/Version: openSUSE 11.0 Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: P5 - None Component: YaST2 AssignedTo: bnc-team-screening@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: lists@user-land.org QAContact: jsrain@novell.com CC: carlos.lange@ualberta.ca, lists@user-land.org Found By: --- Currently, ext3 data structure integrity is checked and repaired at boot if the partition has not been checked since x startups. The check is forced and the user usually not notified while fsck is running, which can delay startup for 10 minutes or more. Perhaps a method could be devised to warn in advance that a disk check is getting near, and then do it at your convenience. Or when the time comes to have the possibility of saying "tomorrow, please". (Carlos F. Lange) Also, a new Yast module could enable scheduling data structure cleanups and defragmentation in the GUI, like triggering checks of all disks at once upon next reboot (touch /forcefsck) and help setting our own preferences regarding intervals. It could also offer unmounting and checking partitions at the spot. Carlos F. Lange wrote:
I read somewhere that the kernel people had a power failure, and it forced an fsck of their filesystem, with all those things they have. It took hours, if I remember correctly. The comment was that a recovery from backup would have been faster.
Current options:
In the mean time, in terminal, enter: su - (becoming root) mount (listing mounted devices like for example /dev/sda1) tune2fs -c 1 /dev/sda1 (to trigger a check at next reboot) then after reboot, again as root: tune2fs -c 0 /dev/sda1 (to disable the check based on times mounted) tune2fs -i 1m /dev/sda1 (to trigger a check every month).
A GUI based control panel could enable triggering checks of all disks at once and help setting our own preferences. Could this be implemented in OpenSuse 11.0 ?
tune2fs -i 1 /dev/sda1 (to trigger a check in 1 day) tune2fs -i 0 /dev/sda1 (to disable check based on time) Please enable either time or reboot times based checks to make sure your data is checked regularly in case you forget to trigger checks manually.
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