Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount
On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Joseph Chung wrote:
> if they were using Win9x. All the pieces are in place, expect for
> those infrequent instances when my Dad forgets to shutdown before
Tell them not to turn the PC off. Best thing to do is configure it to
automatically turn off the screen and any surplus hard drives and it will
use basically no power.
> there some kernel parameter I can tweak so that I'll never have to
> intervene even if the FS is not unmounted cleanly?
There is no kernel parameter to do this other than turning off caching
altogether which will kill the performance.
Check to make sure that e2fsck is being used with the -a or -p options in
the startup scripts. That will convert the check at boot from manual mode
to automatic mode, where it will repair minor filesystem aggravations
automatically. Major corruption will still need to be done manually.
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