Matt wrote:
> I have CentOS 6.x installed on a "HP ProLiant DL380 G5" server. It
> has eight 750GB drives in a hardware RAID6 array. Its acting as a
> host for a number of OpenVZ containers.
>
> Seems like every time I reboot this server which is not very often it
> sits for hours running a disk check or something on boot. The server
> is located 200+ miles away so its not very convenient to look at. Is
> there anyway to tell if it plans to run this or tell it not too?
>
> Right now its reporting one of the drives in array is bad and last
> time it did this a reboot resolved it.
You need to know what it's running. If it's doing an fsck, that will take
a lot of time. If it's firmware in the RAID controller, that's different.
You can run tune2fs /dev/whatever and see how often it wants to run fsck.
For that matter, what's the entry in /etc/fstab?
mark