Re: [gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server?

2013-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 08/06/2013 23:37, Tanstaafl wrote: Hi everyone, What is best practice for doing this? If I reboot in single user mode, will my lvm volumes (ie, /var) be available for fsck'ing, or do I have to mount them first? The current problem started after a different problem required me to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server?

2013-06-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-06-09 3:45 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not convinced a power outage broke the fs so that you now can't umount it, I'm having a hard time imaging how that would happen. More likely some other script file elsewhere is damaged and leaves files open when the system

Re: [gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server?

2013-06-09 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 09/06/2013 16:43, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-06-09 3:45 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not convinced a power outage broke the fs so that you now can't umount it, I'm having a hard time imaging how that would happen. More likely some other script file elsewhere is damaged

Re: [gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server?

2013-06-09 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 09 Jun 2013 17:14:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I have a similar thing with my notebook and NFS mounts at home, I often forget to umount the NFS dirs, causing issues when I then go to work and wake the machine up That's why I have my hibernate script unmount NFS shares and take the

Re: [gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server?

2013-06-09 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-06-09 11:14 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/06/2013 16:43, Tanstaafl wrote: I do know the last few times this has happened, the NFS mount was 'unavailable' (the device had powered down without first unmounting it from the server)... I hope that is all it is...

[gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server?

2013-06-08 Thread Tanstaafl
Hi everyone, What is best practice for doing this? If I reboot in single user mode, will my lvm volumes (ie, /var) be available for fsck'ing, or do I have to mount them first? The current problem started after a different problem required me to do a hard reset on the server - had to do with