Re: 24/7 servers and FSCK

2014-09-26 Thread lee
Muhammad Yousuf Khan writes: > important to run on boot but what i want to know if fsck process is that > critical do i need to run fsck manually. so that i can save my server from I wouldn't worry about it. I've had a server running for a longer time than the uptime counter took to flow over (

Re: 24/7 servers and FSCK

2014-09-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 26/09/14 22:51, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > hello all, > > i have several debian server and they are up 24/7. even i have a server > which is up for 1.5 years. without restart. > > now i know when ever i restart this for the maintenance it will run the > fsck to check the disk. which is fi

Re: 24/7 servers and FSCK

2014-09-26 Thread Gary Dale
On 26/09/14 08:51 AM, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: hello all, i have several debian server and they are up 24/7. even i have a server which is up for 1.5 years. without restart. now i know when ever i restart this for the maintenance it will run the fsck to check the disk. which is fine and i

Re: 24/7 servers and FSCK

2014-09-26 Thread David Guyot
Hello, there. If you run fsck on a mounted filesystem, fsck will not do anything, except if you ask it to run without correcting anything — in fact, if my memory serves me well, even a read-only check will likely fail because of the filesystem changes made by processes as fsck works on it. The onl

Re: 24/7 servers and FSCK

2014-09-26 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 05:51:50PM +0500, Muhammad Yousuf Khan wrote: > i have several debian server and they are up 24/7. even i have a server > which is up for 1.5 years. without restart. snip > or i can cron job the task once every moth or two is this a good idea. You generally can't fsck files

24/7 servers and FSCK

2014-09-26 Thread Muhammad Yousuf Khan
hello all, i have several debian server and they are up 24/7. even i have a server which is up for 1.5 years. without restart. now i know when ever i restart this for the maintenance it will run the fsck to check the disk. which is fine and i have heard that it is very important to run on boot bu