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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Since ext3 is a journaled filesystem is there any reason to
continue doing automatic fscks of filesystems on boot? If so why?<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>RHEL by default does fsck if rebooted if one hasn’t
been done in some number of days (this is configurable). However, if it does
this on a system with lots of large filesystems it can take hours to boot.
This causes complaints in the event of an unexpected server boot because we let
it run.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Last night I saw an issue with “sleeping on disk”
on a process so of course it can’t be killed and the filesystems can’t
be unmounted. I think (but am not sure) that this is the only server where we
disabled the fsck. I’m going to check into that but before I push back
on whether fsck is needed I’m just wondering what others think.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>My co-worker says he was told in training he took that it
isn’t necessary. Long ago I was told similar information for the Veritas
(VxFS) journaled filesystem used for HP-UX and Solaris <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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