Fschk and partitions other than root

arubin · 05-14-2007, 04:04 AM

I have my system on one partition sdb3 but I have two ext3 partitions for media files and two fat32 partitions also for data which are always mounted at boot.

Now every so often fschk is forced on sdb3 when starting the system. It occurs to me that none of the other partitions are ever checked. Should I be checking them regularly?

TIA

Alan

acid_kewpie · 05-14-2007, 04:20 AM

well don't worry about the vfat partitions, but yesh you should be fscking the other ext3 ones. normally you'd firstly have the fsck flag set in /etc/fstab, and also have tune2fs configured to set the "maximal mount count" option to 30 or something, so every 30 mounts, an fsck is run.

arubin · 05-14-2007, 04:45 AM

Thanks, is that the last zero? Change to 2?
Also do I really have to unmount them before running tune2fs?

Quote:

/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb3 / ext3 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda2 /mnt/windows ntfs-3g defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 ext3 user 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /mnt/winlin vfat user,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sdb6 /mnt/winback vfat user,umask=0 0 0
/dev/sdb7 /mnt/radio ext3 user 0 0
/dev/sdb10 /mnt/sdb10 ext3 user 0 0
/dev/sda3 /mnt/mp3 ext3 user 0 0

Zmyrgel · 05-14-2007, 05:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arubin

Also do I really have to unmount them before running tune2fs?

I don't think you *have* to unmount but I'd recommend it as if you don't unmount you will most likely break the filesystem.

acid_kewpie · 05-14-2007, 06:51 AM

well *I* wouldn't bother... interpret at your peril...

pbhj · 05-14-2007, 07:11 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by arubin

Thanks, is that the last zero? Change to 2?

I have this line in my fstab:

Code:

# fsck_on_boot defaults to 0 (don't), 1 is for root fs, 2 for other fs to fsck

And yes it's the last number in the line, the penultimate number being for "dump" (which apparently is some backup program?!).

arubin · 05-14-2007, 01:49 PM

I cannot understand why setting a fsck frequency should break a filesystem.