regular fsck runs are too disturbing

[Waldemar Kornewald]

On 10/1/07, Markus Hitter <mah at jump-ing.de> wrote:
>
> Am 01.10.2007 um 00:16 schrieb Anthony Yarusso:
>
> > How would it work in the background after your drives are mounted?

Did you ever use WinXP and run chkdsk from the command line? It warns
you that it can't *correct* errors (a reboot is needed if errors are
found), but it can at least *detect* errors on a mounted and active
partition (even the boot partition, in case you wondered). Why should
Linux not be able to copy this behavior?

> I'm not aware wether current fsck supports it, but nothing technical
> stops you to _check_ a drive while being mounted r/w. In the
> (hopefully rare) case you find some issue you'd have to ask the user
> to take action, i.e. reboot the machine.

Exactly!

Regards,
Waldemar Kornewald