Re: [CentOS] How to stagger fsck executions

From: Kay Diederichs Sent: April 21, 2015 03:43

On 04/21/2015 06:08 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:

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The second idea was to set each filesystem to a different random count value. This would run the risk of having two or more executions at the same time but it would probably not be very frequent.

Using "tune2fs -c", set the max-mount-counts to a different prime number for each filesystem. So e.g. instead of having 20 for all of them, set the first filesystem to 17, the second to 19, the third to 23, and the fourth to 29. This way, three or more fscks on the same boot are quite unlikely.

Thanks but that is not much different then my second idea and does not fully avoid the problem.

Regards, Hugh