On Thursday 17 March 2005 22:57, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: >paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Howarth) writes: >> > are you guys gonna keep batting this around? >> > man fstab >> > see explanation on 6th field >> >> What has that got to do with forcing a filesystem check? > >Nothing but that wasn't the original question. > >> Gene doesn't want to disable the filesystem check, he just wants >> it to be more verbose so it's clear that the system hasn't hung. > >Quote: >"Filesystems within a drive will be checked sequentially, but > filesystems on different drives will be checked at the same > time to utilize parallelism available in the hardware." > >Meaning that (using Gene's config with hda and hdd), if you happen > to have hdaX and hddY and that fsck starts to check them at the > same time (or hdaX first), you won't see progress for hddY. I'm not seeing any progress for /dev/hdd3, ever. Having another running at the same time on a different spindle has nothing to do with the problem I'm reporting. e2fsck apparently does its checks on the 9 or so partitions I have, and the check line for the initial scan of /dev/hdd3 will end with "check forced" But, the silence is spooky when it says that, say 5 lines up from the bottom of the e2fsck report on the rest of the partitions, nothing else is indicated as needing or being checked, and no output from the check running on /dev/hdd3 is displayed, and I mean none, no progress bar, no electronic thumb twiddling, nothing, and the system, if you don't hear the drive being hammered (and that drive is easily 20 db quieter than the 120GB /dev/hda when seeking, so that is indeed difficult) one gets the impression the system has hung because thats a 180GB partition and it takes 5 to 10 minutes to check it. Only when its done does it print a final "OK" line. Its this total lack of output when doing the check that bothers me. And I believe that holds true also for /dev/hdd2, aka /var on this system. However, thats only 15GB, and may also show no output, but a lag to check 15Gb isn't going to nearly so long and noticable, when its only useing about 2.5GB of it. >Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
