On Feb 28, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Roland RoLaNd r_o_l_a_n_d@hotmail.com wrote:
Dear all,
I'm trying to find a way to automate checkdisk every 1 month on a weekend. in other words i want checkdisk to run every saturday morning.
i can of course change the default mount/count though that wont let me control WHEN it will happen.
so i need your expert opinion with the following if possible:
- reboot into single user mode
- start checkdisk for all disks
- once done, reboot into runlevel 3
i've did a certain script that force checkdisk at night if there's a bad sector using the badblocks command though that's not enough.
PS: i was thinking of something of this sort:
1 4 * sat /bin/touch /forcefsck;reboot 1 1 * sun rm /forcefsck
I would take a snapshot and run fsck against the snapshot, if it reports clean then nothing needs done, if it reports dirty then you need to bring it into maintenance mode and do a fsck with cleanup options.
-Ross