Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4208 mails)

[Jerry Feldman <gaf@xxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Jul 2004 10:25:07 +0200
"Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)" <hylton@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I am investigating checking and tuning my ext3 filesystems.
> 
> I have already implemented the tune2fs command and the drives are 
> checked as specified however, I wondered if a check for bad blocks was
> 
> also done when the tune2fs utility runs?
> 
> I am a little confused after reading the man pages for tune2fs, 
> badblocks and e2fsck.
> 
> Here is my thinking on how I would like to institute a full check.
> 
> I was thinking of implementing the following:
> 
> e2fsck -c <device>| tune2fs -i 1d <device>
> 
> How can I get the above command to run the badblocks each time time
> the machine is booted and the tune2fs app on its specified frequency?
> I would think I would need to edit a system file similar to
> ~/.bashprofile so that the system does the checks before it gets to a
> users bashprofile script.
You do not need to run tune2fs that often. It sets permanent parameters.
I would be careful when doing the bad block test because it can be
destructive. "e2fsck -cc <device> " is a non destructive way to do it.
You don't need or want to run this on a frequent basis. 

Take a look at /etc/init.d/boot.localfs.


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