What do other people do on (home) servers for checking large ext3 or other
journaling filesystems?
It always seems to be the lesser convenient time for a fsck to run when I
reboot for a kernel update, even though the count frequency and maximal
time are at increased values right now.
A 1 TB disk full of my ripped CDs can take a while to fsck...
As per the man page, I'm not sure it's really a good idea to set tune2fs
-i/-c to 0/-1 (never) and then never fsck. But I'm thinking I could do do
that AND set a calender or other reminder for me to do a forced reboot and
forced check every (how long?). I can reboot and check when fscking time
won't be a bother.
I should add that the server runs md RAID1 and is on a UPS. It very rarely
goes down for other than a proper shutdown/reboot - now that I don't have
a buggy nvidia driver :-p.
(My VPS host in Toronto had a reboot last year and their fscking took
fscking hours to run... THAT was a bother.)
Or maybe ext3 is so reliable I can turn checking off forever?
What do you think?
Brett