On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:59 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > Mark C. Allman wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 13:32 -0500, Mark Haney wrote: > >> Mark C. Allman wrote: > >>> System: 2.6.22.9-91.fc7, Dell XPS M1710 laptop, 80GB HD, 2G ram > >>> > >>> >From what I've read, it's a good idea to occasionally have fsck run when > >>> you reboot a system. Also, I've had Fedora lock up a few times (over > >>> the past year, BTW, so I'm not complaining!) such that I had to power > >>> off and back on to restart. > >>> > >>> What I do to have fsck run on startup: > >>> 1. Create /fsckoptions with the switches I want to supply to fsck > >>> 2. Run "shutdown -rF 0' to create /forcefsck and reboot. > >>> Note: When fsck is finished after the reboot the /fsckoptions > >>> and /forcefsck files are removed automatically. > >>> > >> tune2fs -c 21 /dev/xxx > >> > >> This is what I have on my laptop, it is set to fsck after 21 mounts (I > >> think 21 is pretty typical setup for a lot of distros like Ubuntu (or > >> gentoo in my case) change the 21 to suit your needs that should > >> eliminate the need for the setup you have. > >> > > Not really "eliminate." I want to control when the fsck is run. I > > don't want to be stalled on a reboot waiting for fsck to complete. I > > only want to run it, say, on an evening when I know I have time. Also, > > I don't see where it says that a bad block check is run. it may be > > documented in the man page right in front of me, but I don't see it. > > This isn't usually what fsck does by default. If I don't run the bad > > block check (with the -c switch) then what I'm doing now runs fine. > > > > But to my original question: why doesn't what I'm doing work? Shouldn't > > it? That's what I'm asking: why is adding the bad block check causing a > > problem? > > > > -- Mark C, Allman, PMP > > -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. > > -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 > > > > BusinessMsg -- the secure, managed, J2EE/AJAX Enterprise IM/IC solution > > > > > > > > > > Well, that's a really good question. I've done the bad block check and > never had this problem before. You don't state in the OP that you've > tried this from a rescue session to see what the bad blocks check > displays from there. That might give you a hint perhaps. > > > > I'm not sure what you mean by "rescue session." Do you mean booting from a rescue disk? Hadn't tried that. BTW, that brings up something else strange. I booted from the rescue disk so I could delete the /forcefsck and /fsckoptions files. What the rescue disk asked for was where the Fedora 7 CD images were (hard disk, HTTP, FTP, CD-ROM, etc.) for repair. I hadn't seen that before. I gave it a FTP site to go get images/stage2.<something I can't remember> and got to the repair shell prompt. Just strange. Usually after the keyboard, networking on/off, and "do you want to mount existing Fedora filesystems" prompts, anaconda kicks off and I get to the repair shell prompt. -- Mark C, Allman, PMP -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 BusinessMsg -- the secure, managed, J2EE/AJAX Enterprise IM/IC solution
