topic Re: automating fsck in Operating System - HP-UX

automating fsck

Pablo Noya Noya — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:19:28 GMT

Hello all !!!!
I am trying to automate a filesystem check using fsck. Basically, having split a set of standard and BCV disks, I try to mount the BCV disks on my backup server. The filesystems have NOT been unmounted on the application server as I am testing an online DB backup and therefore cannot close down the DB. I can manually do a fsck with the -o full,nolog option but will need to respond to the 'clear log and CLEAN' prompt. There seems to be no 'noprompt' option which would be ideal. Does anyone have a solution for this.
Cheers in advance !!!!!

Re: automating fsck

Pete Randall — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:21:36 GMT

I believe that "fsck -y" will automatically respond "yes" to all questions.

Pete

Re: automating fsck

Marco Santerre — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:23:25 GMT

We have something similar to what you are doing and the exact command we use inside our script is :

fsck -F vxfs -y -o full /dev/vg/lv

Re: automating fsck

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:24:51 GMT

It is automated.

If there is an issue at startup fsck is run.

The command for recovery should be run manually.

fsck -F vxfs -o full

SEP

Re: automating fsck

Pablo Noya Noya — Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:28:49 GMT

Man, do you 2 have the record for quick response or what !!!! Cheers for that. It's weird, but the man pages for fsck are a bag of pooh, absolutely no use what so ever. Thanks again.
Pablo

Re: automating fsck

Rory R Hammond — Tue, 26 Oct 2004 12:55:29 GMT

You can run bcheckrc to fix filesystem automatically. Especially when a system does not comme up correctly.

It will do the lvm stuff and then the fsck's.

Rory