On Thu, 2006-02-16 at 19:19 +0100, ... wrote: > Hi, > > I have a large video-partition (1 TB) and would like to schedule a fsck on > these partition during the shutdown of vdr once a week but only if there is > enough time (let's say 1 Hour) until the next timer will be executed via > nvram-wakeup. The shutdown-script seems to be problematic because vdr is > still running and i will not be able to unmount the partition. During > startup is always a problem, because there might be a timer waiting. > > Is anybody willing to give me a hint how to solve this situation ? Perhaps > someone allready solved this problem. Maybe you could remove the actual shutdown command from the shutdown script, spawn a background process from your shutdown script which kills vdr, sleeps for a few seconds (or have a loop watching for any vdr processes), unmounts the partitions and fscks it, and then does the actual shutdown. Obviously, you'd have to work in the 'once a week' bit, and checking whether there is at least an hour until the next wakeup time. Nice plan, though: I get annoyed when my vdr box starts doing a long fsck every 30 boots, or whatever and I have to wait for that before I can watch TV! Doing it at shutdown every so often would be much more productive! :) Cheers, Laz
