Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2876 mails)

[Eberhard Roloff <tuxebi@xxxxxx>]

Joe Morris (NTM) wrote:
> Eberhard Roloff wrote:
>> Thanks Joe,
>> I do it just like this and indeed it works. This is the "plain great
>> unix style" that works anytime.
>>   
> Glad it also worked for you.
>> Now, one question:
>> What do you mean by "adding code to fsck"? And what do you achieve doing
>> this?
>>   
> I decided it would be good to make sure the filesystem was always
> consistent.  So, not being a programmer, I shamelessly copied the
> relevant part of the script in /etc/init.d/boot.localfs to check the
> status of the filesystem and fsck it if needed.  I actually put my
> backup script together back during 8.2, so I used the code for then. 
> When 9.3 started automounting, I changed to always umount first, then
> fsck, then mount and backup.  With 10.2, I needed to tweak it some to
> umount by the dev rather than mountpoint, but other than that it has
> worked very well.
>> Thanks much for clarification
>>
>>   
> No problem.  No use in struggling to solved what has already been
> solved. :-)
> 
Brilliant!

Thanks again
Eberhard

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