[CentOS] How to stagger fsck executions

Tue Apr 21 15:50:57 UTC 2015
Hugh E Cruickshank <hugh at forsoft.com>

From: Kay Diederichs Sent: April 21, 2015 03:43
> On 04/21/2015 06:08 AM, Hugh E Cruickshank wrote:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> Using "tune2fs -c", set the max-mount-counts to a different 
> prime number
> for each filesystem. So e.g. instead of having 20 for all of them, set
> the first filesystem to 17, the second to 19, the third to 23, and the
> fourth to 29. This way, three or more fscks on the same boot are quite
> unlikely.

Thanks but that is not much different then my second idea and does not
fully avoid the problem.

Regards, Hugh

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Hugh E Cruickshank, Forward Software, www.forward-software.com