Re: fsck on boot...revisited
On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 09:28:56AM -0500, Tim Nelson wrote:
> I have an interesting use case where a Debian Lenny server runs headless, and is at the mercy of poor power conditions (environmental monitoring at a remote storage building). We used to have issues with the server not coming up after several reboots, but we gave it a bandaid by forcing an fsck on every boot (tune2fs...) to correct any issues. This is fine, and has done wonders for disk errors.
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> However...
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> On occasion, we find that a filesystem error is bad enough that instead of auto{matically|magically} fixing the issue and continuing to boot, the system hangs, needing a root password entered for a manual fsck to be run.
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> My question is thus: How do I prevent that requirement to login and run fsck manually? Is there some parameter that can be set? Or, am I going about this the completely wrong way?
Solve the underlying problem as best you can.
Buy a cheap UPS with a serial or USB interface; run the
appropriate daemon on your server to shut it down automatically
when the power drops. Replace the UPS every year or two.
Now your disks will be much happier.
-dsr-
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