Rogério Brito wrote:
Except that the kernel can have bugs that may corrupt the data-structures laid on disk. Almost all data goes cached before going onto the disk. Your memory mal malfunction also independently of your disk. These are just *some* of a long list of reasons to check your disks with some regularity. And being on the safe side is, of course, not a bad idea.
I didn't intend to stop fscking, just to tweak the rate a bit. Another question: would filesystem errors be rsync'ed to my backups? Regards, Johannes