hello
Every 60 days I get a forced filesystem check during booting. In case it
fails, the system won’t boot. So I would like to know how to handle such
situations. Please enlighten me.
Thank you.
Generally the filesystem should come up clean, if you shut down the system correctly. It’s a bad sign if it doesn’t. How much you have to do next depends on the severity of the problem. Often running a check manually is sufficient to fix the problem.
You can do a check at a time suitable for you, and that will keep you going for another 60 days max, or whatever the interval is set to. It’s not a good idea to stop checks altogether because you may accumulate undetected errors.
Regular backups - it should however warn you a long time before your drive fails catastrophically.
On 2008-10-05, Cross_AM <Cross_AM@no-mx.forums.opensuse.org> wrote:
> Every 60 days I get a forced filesystem check during booting. In case it
> fails, the system won’t boot. So I would like to know how to handle such
> situations. Please enlighten me.
Make backups. Plural.
I have a daily backup to another disk of the same machine, and a bi-weekly
one to an old server.
Hint: cron them. If you need to start them manually, you’ll do it a few
times, skip it from time to time, and then forget about it.
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