how to avoid manual fsck

thedeud · 03-27-2003, 01:53 PM

I have a redhat 7.2 box remotely located. Sometimes when I reboot it or it crashes it requires a manual fsck. I find it pointless to drive 30 min's just to hold down the 'y' button for 15 min's while the manual fsck is being ran.

Is there a way to make fsck not require the root password for a manual and have it just anwser yes to everything during boot up?

whansard · 03-27-2003, 02:49 PM

try one of the journaling filesystems.

thedeud · 03-27-2003, 04:04 PM

I'm using etx3 fs, thats journaling isnt it?

LABEL=/ / ext3 defaults,usrquota,grpquota 1 1
LABEL=/boot /boot ext3 defaults 1 2
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/ataraid/d0p2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,kudzu,ro 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0

whansard · 03-27-2003, 04:42 PM

i don't have much experience with ext3.
reiserfs and xfs both will just run through
the journal quickly on boot, and
will not ever fsck.

sethen · 04-07-2003, 12:49 PM

I've got the exact same problem. IS there a work around?

thedeud · 04-07-2003, 01:42 PM

I havent found anything new on this yet.

I'm thinking something fsck could be modified in the /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit that could stop the manual fsck's.

whansard · 04-07-2003, 02:00 PM

one of the 0's at the end of the fstab line means,
don't check the filesystem. I guess to be safe you
could do that, then set the filesystem to check every
day or at every boot or whatever instead.

sethen · 04-07-2003, 02:54 PM

so if i changed the last number in the fstab line to a 0, it wont check?

How would i then set the filesystem to check every so often?

whansard · 04-07-2003, 04:14 PM

man, i'm having a bad day.
i can't remember anything.
i think the 0 means don't check to see if the filesystem is clean
on boot.
and there's a utility that lets you set how many times a filesystem
can get mounted before there is an automatic check.
i think the default is around 20 times. tune2fs i think.

sethen · 04-08-2003, 08:57 AM

tune2fs apparently only deals with ext2 partitions, and mine are all ext3.

any more ideas?

whansard · 04-08-2003, 10:22 AM

did you try tune2fs and it didn't work?
i think the newest version of tune2fs is
for ext3 also.

i think the best thing to do though, would be to backup
and reformat as reiserfs, or xfs, or jfs, if you don't want
the filesystem to check.

sethen · 04-08-2003, 10:29 AM

how do i use tune2fs?

lewnom · 04-08-2003, 10:48 AM

when creating EXT3 filesystems, you see:

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 23 mounts or 180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.

see tune2fs man page

sethen · 04-08-2003, 10:55 AM

thank you!

How would i find out the current settings on tune2fs?

whansard · 04-08-2003, 10:58 AM

it looks like the tune2fs -e continue
option might be what you need, for
the errors behavior. I don't know.
its on the man page