Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote:
An advice among all others:
- When the machine gets stable, disable FS checks (in fstab, I dont
remember what field to set to 0)
- Setup the filesystem not to ask for check every N mounts (tune2fs)
Thanks for your response.
Touch wood, I've found filesystem corruption seems to have become a thing of the past. I assume this is something to do with journaling. My laptop (Fedora-16/KDE) freezes about once a week. I'm not sure why, it doesn't seem to be associated with any application. In any case, I have to stop the machine by pressing the power button. When I re-boot there has not been any problem with the filesystem. As I say, touch wood.
- Have a "netboot" available when things get really bad, so that you can
mount you usual "/" via the netbooted system
Thanks. I'll look into that. Though I don't think that I have any choice except to hope the machine reboots nicely when power returns, since I can't "see" it from a remote location until it has re-booted.
One possibility I've considered is to have a UPS stop the machine, and then use Wake-on-LAN to start it again. But to date I haven't been able to get Wake-on-LAN to work on my HP PowerServer, though it is supposed to be an option.