Re: fsck from cron?
On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> In message <[🔎] 199708272013.WAA00791@zanzy.shqn.pc.it>, writes:
> >... I was wondering if/how was possible to do some kind of
> >scheduled-fsck checks for those machines that never reboot
>
> You can run 'fsck -f -n. This will (according to the man page) do nothing to
> the file system, but should let you know if there are any problems requiring
> attention.
This might cause problems with processes trying to write to the
filesystems as the check is going on.
My solution is to define a separate runlevel that brings the system
down to single user mode, unmounts the filesystem, fsck all of them,
and restarts the system into run-level 2.
--
Jean Pierre
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