[CentOS] How to stagger fsck executions

[Arun Khan]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 9:38 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank <hugh at forsoft.com> wrote:
> CentOS 6
>
>
> My first idea was to manually run fsck on each filesystem, one every
> couple of weeks. That way they will not all come due at the same time
> if we reboot on a regular basis.
>
> The second idea was to set each filesystem to a different random count
> value. This would run the risk of having two or more executions at
> the same time but it would probably not be very frequent.
>
> Does anyone have a suggestion for a better way of doing this?
>

Take a look at 'man tune2fs'  and  'man fstab' for modifying the fsck
order in your system.

HTH,
-- Arun Khan