Re: [BackupPC-users] periodically e2fsck the device /var/lib/backuppc
2009-09-13 17:09:44
Frédéric Massot wrote:
> John Rouillard a écrit :
>> On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 07:49:03PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote:
>>> Michael Stowe wrote:
>>>> By the way, what's the point of doing this? Are your drives
>>>> unreliable?
>>> Not really. But the server runs a lot of weeks without checking the
>>> disk. I feel better if the disk will be checked regular.
>>> If I determine that there are no errors a couple of month I can stop
>>> this check anyway.
>>
>> If you are using Linux raid you can do a check/scrub of the disks.
>>
>> http://wiki.xdroop.com/space/Linux/Software+Raid+Scrub
>>
>> This compares the bits on disk for consistency. Fsck'ing the disks is
>> good if you suspect the filesystem structure is wonky, but it won't
>> check the actual data in the files AFIAK (but that might be filesystem
>> type specific). It just checks the metadata like directory structures,
>> inodes, file continuation blocks etc.
>
> Hi,
>
> If you are using a Debian is produced by the script "/etc/cron.d/mdadm"
> and "/usr/share/mdadm/checkarray".
>
>
Debian :-)
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