On Feb 28, 2011, at 4:49 AM, Roland RoLaNd <r_o_l_a_n_d@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I'm trying to find a way to automate checkdisk every 1 month on a weekend.
> in other words i want checkdisk to run every saturday morning.
>
> i can of course change the default mount/count though that wont let me control WHEN it will happen.
>
> so i need your expert opinion with the following if possible:
>
> 1. reboot into single user mode
> 2. start checkdisk for all disks
> 3. once done, reboot into runlevel 3
>
> i've did a certain script that force checkdisk at night if there's a bad sector using the badblocks command though that's not enough.
>
>
>
> PS: i was thinking of something of this sort:
>
> 1 4 * sat /bin/touch /forcefsck;reboot
> 1 1 * sun rm /forcefsck
I would take a snapshot and run fsck against the snapshot, if it reports clean then nothing needs done, if it reports dirty then you need to bring it into maintenance mode and do a fsck with cleanup options.
-Ross
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