Rebooting

[Wulfy]

D. Michael McIntyre wrote:
> On Sunday 07 October 2007, Wulfy wrote:
>   
>> That's what I thought.  I know that fsck-ing a live partition is death
>> to the file system and I couldn't see any way to remount everything read
>> only...
>>     
>
> There *is* a way.  Something with -o remount ro or something, but I've sat 
> down with man mount and played, and never quite hit on the magic words to 
> actually get it to happen.  The syntax is pretty obtuse, and the 
> documentation not exactly enlightening.  I've never been determined enough to 
> plug away at the problem hard enough to solve it.
>   

Aye.  Seems like a lot of messing around and a lot slower than rebooting.

>> So.  I need to reboot to fsck...  how often?
>>     
>
> I have no idea how often is recommended.  I suggest you tweak the options to 
> have the partitions fscked every mount, or every other mount or something, 
> since you reboot so infrequently. man tune2fs for details.  It has lots of 
> suggested best practices right in the man page.
>
> Another thing you can do is shut down by hand, with the -F option, to force 
> fsck.  Something like
>
>   $ shutdown now -F
>
> which sets a flag that causes a manual fsck on the next boot.
>   
Thanks for the pointers, Michael!  I'll take a look at tune2fs...  :@)

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