Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!torsqnt!lethe!tvcent!andrew
From: andrew@tvcent.uucp (Andrew Cowie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Regular FSCK Required ?
Keywords: fsck cron
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.040254.16272@tvcent.uucp>
Date: 8 Mar 91 04:02:54 GMT
References: <1235@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au>
Organization: TVC Enterprises
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In article <1235@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au> nigel@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Nigel Harwood) writes:
>Is a regular FSCK required ?  Could it solve some of our problems ?
>Perhaps then I can convince them to invest the time.

I believe that regular fsck's couldn't hurt in any case. What you might 
try, postulating computer illiterate users, is putting a call to it in
cron and having it run at, say, 4:00am Sundays.

The only catch is that some versions of fsck absolutely refuse to contine
unless someone answers the questions, for example:

INODE=1234 BAD
CLEAR?

If your flavour of UNIX supports completely automatic fscks, then I don't
see why this won't work.

Hey, you could even solve this problem (maybe) by having cron kill off the
fscks an hour later if they still exist. (Emphasis on the maybe; you won't
find me trying that on MY system :-))

Regards,

--
Andrew F. Cowie at TVC Enterprises, Toronto, Canada.
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