why fsck

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 17:12 +0100, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> On Mon, March 1, 2010 17:05, Nils Kassube wrote:
> 
> > OTOH, I have never seen file system errors unless there was a dirty
> > shutdown. Therefore I'm not convinced the check frequency is useful. And
> > I don't use the mount count because I sometimes boot my machines several
> > times a day. Instead I use the mount interval and I set it to at least 4
> > weeks.
> 
> In one of my previous messages I posted a link to a script that does an
> fsck ONLY when the fs is marked as dirty. Check it out.

I have seen issues with supposedly clean filesystems which have bad
blocks due to the disk going bad.  I only found out when the check
frequency triggered a run of fsck.  As a result of this experience, I
leave the periodic filesystem check on.


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