Re: [CentOS] how to stop an in-progress fsck that runs at boot?

2011-09-14 Thread Josh Miller
On 09/13/2011 07:39 PM, Matt Garman wrote: ... Also, as a side question: I always do this---let my servers run for a very long time, power down to change/upgrade hardware, then forget about the forced fsck, then pull my hair out waiting for it to finish (because I can't figure out how to stop

Re: [CentOS] how to stop an in-progress fsck that runs at boot?

2011-09-14 Thread Shad L. Lords
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:39 PM, Matt Garman matthew.gar...@gmail.comwrote: My question is more along the lines of best practices---what are most people doing with regards to regular fsck's of ext2/3/4 filesystems? Do you just take the defaults, and let it delay the boot process by however

Re: [CentOS] how to stop an in-progress fsck that runs at boot?

2011-09-13 Thread Always Learning
On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 21:39 -0500, Matt Garman wrote: I can't seem to find the answer to this question via web search... I changed some hardware on a server, and upon powering it back on, got the /dev/xxx has gone 40 days without being check, check forced message. Now it's running fsck on a

Re: [CentOS] how to stop an in-progress fsck that runs at boot?

2011-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/13/11 7:48 PM, Always Learning wrote: Would be nice if one could schedule this sort of work for off-peak. the problem is, the file system has to be unmounted, so it pretty much has to be offline. -- john r pierceN 37, W 122 santa cruz ca

Re: [CentOS] how to stop an in-progress fsck that runs at boot?

2011-09-13 Thread Tracy Bost
On 09/13/2011 09:39 PM, Matt Garman wrote: I can't seem to find the answer to this question via web search... I changed some hardware on a server, and upon powering it back on, got the /dev/xxx has gone 40 days without being check, check forced message. Now it's running fsck on a huge (2

Re: [CentOS] how to stop an in-progress fsck that runs at boot?

2011-09-13 Thread John R Pierce
On 09/13/11 8:57 PM, Tracy Bost wrote: my first post here. that same thing happened with me a few years ago with RHEL. i'm trying to remember the steps and seems like booted into single user/rescue mode and then turned the fsck flag to off in fstab for the partition(s). hope that can at least