fsck on mounted system?
 

Hi,

it is nowadays common to have a big partition in your system with
almost everything. When you have some energy blackouts and
want to check for the integrity of your discs, how do you do it?

thx...

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oxy wrote:
> it is nowadays common to have a big partition in your system with
> almost everything. When you have some energy blackouts and
> want to check for the integrity of your discs, how do you do it?

Use the command

sudo touch /forcefsck

and then the filesystem should be checked at the next reboot.



Nils

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On 07/09/12 10:38, oxy wrote:

Hi,

it is nowadays common to have a big partition in your system with
almost everything. When you have some energy blackouts and
want to check for the integrity of your discs, how do you do it?

thx.

>

This can be done either by booting a live Cd or USB and running fsck
from there. Or booting into 'Recovery Mode' from the Grub menu and
selecting 'Check all files systems' from the menu.



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oxy wrote:
> it is nowadays common to have a big partition in your system with
> almost everything. When you have some energy blackouts and
> want to check for the integrity of your discs, how do you do it?

Buy a UPS?

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>
> sudo touch /forcefsck
>
> and then the filesystem should be checked at the next reboot.
>


is there a way to force fsck on shutdown?

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On 7 September 2012 10:38, oxy <oxyopes@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> it is nowadays common to have a big partition in your system with
> almost everything. When you have some energy blackouts and
> want to check for the integrity of your discs, how do you do it?

Don't have one big partition. :¬)

At least until Ubuntu adopts swap*files*, you need a separate swap
partition anyway - so if you're creating 2, keep going and separate
/home off as well. There are a number of benefits to doing this,
notably when it comes to dual-booting and upgrading your OS.

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oxy wrote:
> > sudo touch /forcefsck
> >
> > and then the filesystem should be checked at the next reboot.
>
> is there a way to force fsck on shutdown?

I don't think so. At least I didn't read about such an option until now.


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On 07/09/12 20:16, Nils Kassube wrote:

oxy wrote:

it is nowadays common to have a big partition in your system with
almost everything. When you have some energy blackouts and
want to check for the integrity of your discs, how do you do it?

Use the command

sudo touch /forcefsck

and then the filesystem should be checked at the next reboot.



Nils


The file system is checked at boot time anyway.

However, if there are serious problems they are not corrected and you
need to run e2fsck manually. Here I speak from experience.


We had a couple of power failures during severe storms following which
my wife's computer played up for several days (computer was booted every
morning). On a hunch I did e2fsck manually and found bad corruption of
the file system which I then had e2fsck repair. Problem disappeared.


In another place, I gave another person same advice and he came back
stating that his fs was also corrupted and e2fsck repaired the damage.


When running e2fsck manually do NOT use the '-p' option; watch what
e2fsck shows you as problem(s) and answer the questions (all usually in
the affirmative).


(And it doesn't hurt to run e2fsck occasionally either - it won't do any
harm but it may just reveal some problem in the file system which
developed for some reason.


BTW, if you are using reiser file system then run 'reiserfsck
--fix-fixable'.)


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On 7 September 2012 11:26, oxy <oxyopes@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>> sudo touch /forcefsck
>>
>> and then the filesystem should be checked at the next reboot.
>>
>
>
> is there a way to force fsck on shutdown?

No, not AFAIK, because the system would have to drop from a multituser
runlevel down to single-user in order that the filesystems could be
remounted read-only. You mustn't try to fsck a mounted filesystem or
you *will* screw it up, badly.


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Liam Proven wrote:
> On 7 September 2012 11:26, oxy <oxyopes@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> sudo touch /forcefsck
>>>
>>> and then the filesystem should be checked at the next reboot.
>>
>> is there a way to force fsck on shutdown?
>
> No, not AFAIK, because the system would have to drop from a multituser
> runlevel down to single-user in order that the filesystems could be
> remounted read-only.

That could be done of course, but at shutdown, the system is also in its
'most likely to be corrupt' state. Not the ideal time to run some
self-checking code. It would be better to let the system shut down,
reboot so it's in a completely known state, then run fsck and shut down
again.

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