Re: [opensuse] ext3 check forced = frustration On 02/18/2008 03:12 AM, Adam Jimerson wrote:
> Yea doing that to my root partition would not make sense, but I should have 
> added that it would be for /home and things like external HDDs that was 
> formatted to ext3.  
That is much less of a problem, especially for a system that is on most 
of the time.  You could easily create a script that ran from cron that
umount /home
fsck.ext3 -C -p /dev/(partition for home)
mount /home
or something a bit more elaborate.
> From what I have seen from both my laptop and desktop, 
> both have a 120 GB SATA HDD, the root partition is the smallest that gets 
> checked and takes about 30 seconds to do.  No problem for me its just 30 
> seconds more, so it feels like openSUSE 10.2's boot time but that is no 
> problem.  The problem is my /home partition takes a while on both machines to 
> run so I figured if I can run it while they are idle then when my systems it 
> the 60 it would only have to scan my root. 
Understood.  That idea sounds good, and pretty easily done.
>  I'm also planning on getting an 
> external HDD and mount it on my laptop for backups, I use this more than my 
> desktop, and I have yet to decided on a file format for it, but if I do go 
> with ext3 then I can also just check that by hand.
>
>   
I do this, and have the file system check as part of the backup script.  
Since it isn't always connected, I think to make it a part of the backup 
script makes more sense.  Mine also umounts it (wherever it was 
mounted), checks it, then mounts it where I want it.
> How can the check be done, is it part of tune2fs, or is it a different 
> command? 
>   
The command depends on the file system.

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Joe Morris
Registered Linux user 231871 running openSUSE 10.3 x86_64


