[CentOS] fsck while file system is mounted

Sat May 16 23:30:07 UTC 2009
Lanny Marcus <lmmailinglists at gmail.com>

On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote:
> centos at 911networks.com wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 May 2009 21:18:17 +0200
>> Equinox86 <equinox86 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> mmm why you not reboot?
>>
>> Because to reboot, I will need the authorization of 3 different
>> people. Don't ask, they are having major "political" fights between
>> 2 divisions.
>
> You really need to arrange a scheduled maintenance window and a
> procedure to announce when emergency maintenance will happen.
> Pretending things never break or need maintenance operations is just
> unrealistic - but if the authorization you need is part of a working
> scheduling process it is not necessarily a bad thing.

Les is correct. You need to be able to take the server offline and
check the hard drive and/or replace it. Hardware does break and you
should have spares available, on site, ready to use. Or, a backup
server.