On Saturday 16 February 2008 10:46:03 pm Joe Morris wrote:
On 02/17/2008 11:04 AM, Adam Jimerson wrote:
Can the check be ran manually like you can with reiser? That way instead of doing it a boot every 60 days it can be ran while the system is idle.
Yes and no. Of course you can run it as a cli command, BUT NOT on a mounted rw filesystem. That is why the check on boot, before it is mounted rw. You could remount the filesystem ro, but not very convenient on your root partition. I have decided it is a small price to pay for data consistency for as often as I boot the server. FS corruption left uncorrected is not an advantage in the few minutes it adds to a boot every few months IMO.
-- Joe Morris Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64
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. 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. 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. How can the check be done, is it part of tune2fs, or is it a different command?