Re: How do I trigger an fsck on boot for a drive not in fstab?

2012-10-28 Thread Todd And Margo Chester

On 10/27/2012 07:42 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

 You can put an fsck command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Steven Yellin

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:


Hi All,

SL 6.2, x64

I have an ext 4 drive (/dev/sdb1)  I use for backup that is
deliberately not in my fstab.

touch /forcefsck will only force a check on my main (/)
drive.

Question: is there a way to trigger an an fsck at boot on
this backup drive?

Many thanks,
-T





Thank you.  Thank will work.

Actually, I am trying to solve the mystery of how to get it to
fsck at the same time as touch /forcefsck.  Do you know
how to do this?

Many thanks,
-T


Re: How do I trigger an fsck on boot for a drive not in fstab?

2012-10-28 Thread Todd And Margo Chester

On 10/28/2012 09:13 PM, Chris Schanzle wrote:

On 10/28/2012 03:29 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:

On 10/27/2012 07:42 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

  You can put an fsck command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Steven Yellin

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:


Hi All,

SL 6.2, x64

I have an ext 4 drive (/dev/sdb1)  I use for backup that is
deliberately not in my fstab.

touch /forcefsck will only force a check on my main (/)
drive.

Question: is there a way to trigger an an fsck at boot on
this backup drive?

Many thanks,
-T





Thank you.  Thank will work.

Actually, I am trying to solve the mystery of how to get it to
fsck at the same time as touch /forcefsck.  Do you know
how to do this?

Many thanks,
-T


Hi Todd,

Have you perused through tune2fs(8) to notice you may set a
max-mount-counts to 1 or maybe a daily interval-between-checks to 1d?

Why are you so adverse to an fstab entry?  If you specify option
noauto it won't be mounted on boot, but it *might* fsck with the others.



Hi Chris,

Only certain scripts need access or even need to know this drive exists.
I deliberately do not have it in my fstab.  I use this drive as you 
would a removable flash drive.


What I am up to is trying to see if there is any clue as to why
I drop to maintenance mode every so often with a message that
fsck can not lock the drive because it is in use.  Our intrepid
heroes at Red Hat are troubleshooting this for me:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=836696

cat /proc/mounts in maintenance mode does not even show the drive as
mounted (it is not suppose to be).  And lsof shows nothing accessing
the drive (it is not mounted).

I am just digging around looking for any clue that might help them.
I just used your suggestion on tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/lin-bak
and posted it to the bug.

Thank you for the help,
-T