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From: nigel@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au (Nigel Harwood)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: regular fsck possible solution
Message-ID: <1239@cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au>
Date: 18 Mar 91 22:44:36 GMT
Organization: Coles Myer Ltd., Melbourne, Australia
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I asked a little while back about people's opinions regarding doing
a regular fsck on systems to prevent file system corruption going
unnoticed.

I have decided to run a script using cron on the systems in question
once a day.  The script would run fsck -n and check its output.
If no problems were found it would continue on.  If problems were found
it would then wait 10 minutes and run fsck -n again.  If none of
the problems are duplicated exactly on the second run then it will
continue on.  If they are however it will consider corruption to have
occurred and I can arrange for a proper fsck to be done in single user.

Hopefully by running fsck twice I will be able to differentiate between
valid file systems changes due to the running system and real corruption.

Thoughts ?
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