Re: [CentOS] unattended fsck on reboot

At Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:07:27 +0100 CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org wrote:

On 02/18/2010 09:54 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: ...

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But, how does one get past this? I know we need to reboot from time to time, but more than often it's (preferably) not sooner than 6 - 10 months, so fsck will run.

Turn off automatic fsck with "tune2fs -i 0 -c 0" and instead do a manual fsck (reboot with forcefsck or "touch /forcefsck" before reboot) at regular intervals. This must be done on the VM's as well.

Announce the downtime to the users in advance and do it in the evening or weekend.

And stagger the fscks to spread things out and shorten the downtimes.

Mogens