On 02/28/2011 03:49 AM, Roland RoLaNd 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:

1. reboot into single user mode
2. start checkdisk for all disks
3. 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

Would the above work? for all disks?

I would personally not automate this ... there are times when fsck does not complete cleanly and needs user interaction.

I only fsck important machines when I can touch them ... at least via a remote console. If it completes automatically, great. If not, I am there to try to fix it and get the filesystem running.

I'm sure others think it is OK to do this automatically, but that is my advise.