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Re: 24/7 servers and FSCK



On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 05:51:50PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote:
> i have several debian server and they are up 24/7. even i have a server
> which is up for 1.5 years. without restart.
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> or i can cron job the task once every moth or two is this a good idea.

You generally can't fsck filesystems if they are mounted. I'd not worry about
lack of fscks for long-running servers. Ensure you have backups. If the time
taken to bring a service up (due to fsck) is a problem, then investigate HA.


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