Best Practice for ext3 filesystem

[K.C. Chan]

what is the best practive for ext3 fs? I've turned off the option where you have to do a force check. I am wondering how do you the force check manually? Do you reboot the server in "Single User Mode"? Then do the force check on a regular basis?

If my / is ext3 and I've turned off the force check option, then how do I manually force check it? Is there a maintenance mode for Linux; something similar to HP-UX?

[Patrick Preuss]

hi,

you could use the runlevel S

for single user mode (no network no services no deal;-)

type something like:

init S
or

telinit S

-PP

[Eric Ladner]

Or, at the lilo prompt, you can type: single

Replace with whatever the label in the lilo.conf is for the linux image you boot.

Personally, I'd use fstune and set it to automatically do a full check after 20 remounts or so. If it's a very infrequently rebooted machine, make it every reboot or every other reboot.