Re: unattended fsck on reboot

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On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


There are two metrics used:  number of times a FS is mounted and number
of days since last fsck/mount.  For machines that don't get rebooted
often (eg servers) the 'number of times a FS is mounted' almost never
kicks in and the 'number of days since last fsck/mount' does.


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Is it "absolutely" necessary to run this on servers? Especially since they don't reboot often, but when they do it takes ages for fsck to finish - which on web servers causes extra unwanted downtime. 

Or is there a way to run fsck with the server running? I know it's a bad idea, but is there any way to run it, without causing too much downtime? I just had one server run fsck for 2+ hours, which is not really feasible in our line of business. 

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