At Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:45:46 -0600 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote: > > On 1/6/2010 11:19 AM, Alan McKay wrote: > > Hey folks, > > > > I searched the list archives and found this : > > > > echo "AUTOFSCK_TIMEOUT=5"> /etc/sysconfig/autofsck > > echo "AUTOFSCK_DEF_CHECK=yes">> /etc/sysconfig/autofsck > > > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2006-November/029837.html > > http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2009-September/thread.html#81934 > > > > Will this do all disks? > > > > I want to do a reboot of a couple of systems during our maintenance > > window and fsck them, but would rather try it from home first and not > > go to the data center. Then of course rush there like a madman if > > they don't come back up :-) > > > > There was a suggestion in the 2nd thread above that with ext3 this > > should not be required with proper hardware (my paraphrase). I'm > > using all IBM stuff - x3550, x3650, x3800 and some of the earlier > > models like x330. I can't imagine this being an issue. But > > nonetheless I do have some issues on a couple of systems that look > > like they need fsck'ing > > It will happen by itself at some default interval. I've forgotten > exactly what the timing is but it is infrequent enough that it always > takes me by surprise when it takes an extra 10 minutes for a remote > system to come back up. 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/