Matt wrote:
I have CentOS 6.x installed on a "HP ProLiant DL380 G5" server. It has eight 750GB drives in a hardware RAID6 array. Its acting as a host for a number of OpenVZ containers.
Seems like every time I reboot this server which is not very often it sits for hours running a disk check or something on boot. The server is located 200+ miles away so its not very convenient to look at. Is there anyway to tell if it plans to run this or tell it not too?
Right now its reporting one of the drives in array is bad and last time it did this a reboot resolved it.
You need to know what it's running. If it's doing an fsck, that will take a lot of time. If it's firmware in the RAID controller, that's different. You can run tune2fs /dev/whatever and see how often it wants to run fsck. For that matter, what's the entry in /etc/fstab?
mark