[PLUG] fsck: recommended options? [UPDATE]

[Ben Koenig]

Those kernel warnings say EXT4, but your fstab and fsck usage all say ext3.

Are you absolutely sure this volume
 is ext3? Because the kernel has other ideas....

On Mon, Aug 5, 2019, 6:01 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 4 Aug 2019, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > My daily logwatch report shows kernel errors on the external backup
> drive,
> > /dev/sdb/, an ext3 file system. It's been a very long time since I had
> > occasion to manually run fsck.
>
> Yesterday, thanks to advice from Wes, Cathy, and Rodney I ran fsck on the
> external backup drive using it's UUID. This morning's logwatch report still
> contains the warnings:
>
>   ################### Logwatch 7.4.3 (04/27/16) ####################
>          Processing Initiated: Mon Aug  5 03:10:03 2019
>          Date Range Processed: yesterday
>                                ( 2019-Aug-04 )
>                                Period is day.
>          Detail Level of Output: 0
>          Type of Output/Format: mail / text
>          Logfiles for Host: salmo
>   ##################################################################
>
>   --------------------- Kernel Begin ------------------------
>
>   WARNING:  Kernel Errors Present
>      EXT4-fs (sdb): error count since last ...:  1 Time(s)
>      EXT4-fs (sdb): initial error at time 15645858 ...:  1 Time(s)
>      EXT4-fs (sdb): last error at time 15645858 ...:  1 Time(s)
>
>   ---------------------- Kernel End -------------------------
>
> The fstab entries for this drive are:
>
> UUID=da596a77-2fb4-41ed-881c-a3f8bb0ab437 /mnt/backup  auto defaults  0 0
> /dev/sdb         /mnt/hd          ext3        noauto,users,rw  0   0
>
> I want to understand the kernel warning and fix whatever causes it.
>
> The fsck man page says that -p is the same as the deprecated -a, especially
> for e2fsck. The fsck.ext3 man page says that -p "Automatically repair
> ("preen") the file system. This option will cause e2fsck to automatically
> fix any filesystem problems that can be safely fixed without human
> intervention."
>
> Should I run e2fsck -p on this drive?
>
> Insights wanted,
>
> Rich
>
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