Re: automating e2fsck to assume y

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya jason

On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jason M. Harvey wrote:
 
> i'm running ext2 - is there any way, such as in fstab, to specify "-y"
> to e2fsck if it ever needs to be run manually at startup?

when you manually run e2fsck, use -p to tell it to just go and clean it up

and once a year or so, it will clean up your inodes on the disks
with what it think it should be in its bad funky memory, destroying 
the disk

-- its a bad idea NOT to see what e2fscsk is cleaning up
   and you should NOT see too many of those fixes

-- if you see more than say 10 fixes or hundreds/thousands of sequential
   inode fixes, its too late, you've just screwed up your disk ...
	a case there re-install from cdrom is merited
	because you dont know that backups has the correct files
	in its backups either

-- running ext3 on top of a bad ext2 wont help you

c ya
alvin