Hi everyone,

I read the ext3 filesystem do a check during the boot every 6 months, is this check completely automatic and doesn't ask anything to the user ?

I'm setting a linux pc for mail and internet for a person who is not familiar to computer, so it would be better to have something that will work alone and not ask complicated question (do you want to repare this inode ?...)




Thanks for any information

That is my understanding. fsck will also check at boot time if for any reason a disc was flagged "dirty"

I believe there is an option in e2fsck to assume yes to every questions he may ask

Here is the usefull options of e2fsck
-n
Open the filesystem read-only, and assume an answer of `no' to all questions. Allows e2fsck to be used non-interactively. (Note: if the -c, -l, or -L options are specified in addition to the -n option, then the filesystem will be opened read-write, to permit the bad-blocks list to be updated. However, no other changes will be made to the filesystem.) This option may not be specified at the same time as the -p or -y options.

-p
Automatically repair ("preen") the file system. This option will case e2fsck to automatically fix any filesystem problems that can be safely fixed without human intervention. If e2fsck discovers a problem which may require the system administrator to take additional corrective action, e2fsck will print a description of the problem and then exit with the value 4 logically or'ed into the exit code. (See the EXIT CODE section.) This option is normally used by the system's boot scripts. It may not be specified at the same time as the -n or -y options.

-y
Assume an answer of `yes' to all questions; allows e2fsck to be used non-interactively. This option may not be specified at the same time as the -n or -p options.