fsck on mounted system?

[Basil Chupin]

On 07/09/12 20:16, Nils Kassube wrote:
> oxy wrote:
>> it is nowadays common to have a big partition in your system with
>> almost everything. When you have some energy blackouts and
>> want to check for the integrity of your discs, how do you do it?
> Use the command
>
> sudo touch /forcefsck
>
> and then the filesystem should be checked at the next reboot.
>
>
>
> Nils

The file system is checked at boot time anyway.

However, if there are serious problems they are not corrected and you 
need to run e2fsck manually. Here I speak from experience.

We had a couple of power failures during severe storms following which 
my wife's computer played up for several days (computer was booted every 
morning). On a hunch I did e2fsck manually and found bad corruption of 
the file system which I then had e2fsck repair. Problem disappeared.

In another place, I gave another person same advice and he came back 
stating that his fs was also corrupted and e2fsck repaired the damage.

When running e2fsck manually do NOT use the '-p' option; watch what 
e2fsck shows you as problem(s) and answer the questions (all usually in 
the affirmative).

(And it doesn't hurt to run e2fsck occasionally either - it won't do any 
harm but it may just reveal some problem in the file system which 
developed for some reason.

BTW, if you are using reiser file system then run 'reiserfsck 
--fix-fixable'.)

BC

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