At Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:07:27 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 02/18/2010 09:54 AM, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > ... > > But, how does one get past this? I know we need to reboot from time to time, > > but more than often it's (preferably) not sooner than 6 - 10 months, so fsck > > will run. > > Turn off automatic fsck with "tune2fs -i 0 -c 0" and instead > do a manual fsck (reboot with forcefsck or "touch /forcefsck" before > reboot) at regular intervals. This must be done on the VM's as well. > > Announce the downtime to the users > in advance and do it in the evening or weekend. And stagger the fscks to spread things out and shorten the downtimes. > > Mogens > -- 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/