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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110228/018a5d57/attachment-0004.sig>