[PLUG] Forced fsck

[Wil Cooley]

On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 20:14 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> On Mon, 8 May 2006 21:48:42 +0000
> Auke Kok <sofar at foo-projects.org> dijo:
> 
> > by default ext3 gets checked every N time *or* every N days, 
> > whichever comes first. Sooner or later you'll hit the 180days 
> > mark which is the default for the N days value ;^)
> 
> Very interesting discussion, which I am finding very educational! A few questions:
> 
> 1) I haven't experienced any problem in the past year running my hard
> drive with ext3. So what would y'all recommend for a laptop that is
> rebooted an average of 1.5 times a day and for which a backup of /home
> + is made every time a significant amount of new stuff is added (like
> a day or two of work)? Like, how often should fsck be run? I'm not
> interested in *absolute* safety; I'm interested in what is reasonable.
> E.g., in the final analysis, we're all dead anyway. So what is a
> reasonable tradeoff between safety and usability?

As I said, I just turn the periodic checks off with ext3.  If you're
paranoid, turn off the mount-count and just keep the 180 day checks.

> 2) I just ordered a new 80 GB 7200 rpm hard disk for my laptop. Should
> I put ext3 on it, or might something else be better? 

ext3 will give you the least headaches.  If you were experienced admin
and had an application that required something the other filesystems
might provide, it might warrant it.  Otherwise, stick with the
mainstream.

Wil
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Wil Cooley <wcooley at nakedape.cc>
Naked Ape Consulting, Ltd
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