[WBEL-users] Disk check at boot

[Graham Waring]

G'day Mark,

You are likely to get many replies to this one and they will all state the 
same facts (sorry if I am repeating someone else with my response).  Yes, 
with the ext3 file system when a box boots back up after a power interrupt 
you are given the option to run a file system check on each file system or 
not.  If you ponder for more than 5 seconds, it goes right ahead and 
attempts to boot up as normal and on the fly attempts to recover the journal 
for each of the file systems it mounts as per the fstab.  I myself did the 
happy dance when redhat included the ext3 file system in their distros.  I 
don't miss at all that uneasy feeling as you watched a sloooow fsck of the 
very file system that had everyones mail or web sites on...with the boss 
standing behind you looking at his watch saying "should it be taking this 
long?".
Hope this helps :)

Graham

>From: Mark Kelly <whitebox at wastedtimes.net>
>Reply-To: whitebox at wastedtimes.net
>To: whitebox-users at beau.org
>Subject: [WBEL-users] Disk check at boot
>Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 15:43:43 +0000
>
>Hi
>
>Rebooting my whitebox machine after a powercut, I got the message about
>pressing Y to check disks. I did so, and all was well (phew).
>
>What I was wondering was what would have happened if I hadn't been there to
>press the key - I'm thinking more of remote reboots etc.
>
>Sorry if this is a daft question.
>
>Regards,
>
>Mark
>
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