Christian Lademann wrote: Hi. Is there any reasonable possibility to check a mounted fs for errors? It would be useful to have server-filesystems (and harddisks) checked periodically on machines that are only rebooted by hardware-failures ;-) Regards, Christian -- * Christian A. Lademann, ZLS Software GmbH mailto:lademann@zls.de * ZLS Software GmbH * Frankfurter Strasse 59 Postfach 1628 mailto:zls@zls.de * D-65779 Kelkheim D-65766 Kelkheim http://www.zls.de * Telefon +49-6195-9902-0 Telefax +49-6195-900600 * Geschäftsführer John A. Shuter - Amtsgericht Königstein HRB 3105
Hi, On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 04:23:07PM +0200, Christian Lademann wrote:> Is there any reasonable possibility to check a mounted fs for errors? It would > be > useful to have server-filesystems (and harddisks) checked periodically on > machines > that are only rebooted by hardware-failures ;-)Indeed. It has been discussed, and there are a couple of ways we could do this. Right now, the only viable way is to use LVM to create a consistent snapshot of the filesystem and fsck that. There are no automatic tools for it. Cheers, Stephen