[X Servers] Forcing server to perform fsck on restart

[Dave Walker]

if you want to make sure, you could always edit the startup scripts to 
do fsck -f every time
just my $0.02

Dave
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 11:02  pm, R. Hannes Niedner wrote:

> On 1/30/03 2:26 PM, "Robert Nicholson" <robert at elastica.com> wrote:
>
>> If the machine was not shutdown gracefully it will do the write thing
>> when it is restarted.
>>
>> When the machine reboots its startup scripts will run fsck -p and that
>> program will examine
>> the filesystem and it will know that the machine wasn't shutdown
>> gracefully and it will proceed
>> to fix the problem caused by that.
>
> Well, I went "over" to the server room and did the thing manually. I 
> had
> journaling turned on thus fsck -y will tell you that it wont do it 
> without
> -f and so I did. Even with journaling on and the above described self
> maintenance it still found minor problems on the file system which it
> happily repaired. Go figure..
>
> /h
>
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