On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote: > > > There are two metrics used: number of times a FS is mounted and number > of days since last fsck/mount. For machines that don't get rebooted > often (eg servers) the 'number of times a FS is mounted' almost never > kicks in and the 'number of days since last fsck/mount' does. > > > -- > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 > Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows > heller at deepsoft.com -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ > _______________________________________________ > Is it "absolutely" necessary to run this on servers? Especially since they don't reboot often, but when they do it takes ages for fsck to finish - which on web servers causes extra unwanted downtime. Or is there a way to run fsck with the server running? I know it's a bad idea, but is there any way to run it, without causing too much downtime? I just had one server run fsck for 2+ hours, which is not really feasible in our line of business. -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100218/5e25bfee/attachment-0004.html>