Subject: Re: System Disk Maintenence
From: Bryn Hughes (linux@demian.shacknet.nu)
Date: Tue Jan 16 2001 - 12:34:24 MST
I guess nightly is a little excessive. Really I'd just like to at least
have a weekly check/repair of the file system. I HAVE had a couple of
occasions where things have gone a little quirky with my drive... and since
the server is almost never rebooted, it doesn't have much of an opportunity
to check itself. I know right now there's some problems on one of my
partitions, but I can't take down the server during the day to do repairs,
and I'm not on site after hours, so it has to be a cron job if if involves
stopping networking.
What do you do for disk maintenance?
Bryn
on 1/12/01 11:24 AM, Paul J. Lucas at pauljlucas@mac.com wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Bryn Hughes wrote:
>
>> What's the best way to do disk repairs and maintenance on a YD Linux system?
>> Switching into single-user maintenance mode on my system leaves me with no
>> USB. Being that it's a G4, that's not too convenient (no mouse/keyboard).
>
> Bringing the ethernet interface down will get you a fairly
> quiescent system.
>
>> Ideally I'd like to have the server go down to maintenance mode every night
>> and run fsck to check/repair my disks ...
>
> There really is no reason to be doing that.
>
> - Paul
>
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