Re: forcing a file system check

["Bill Mills-Curran" <user=1411@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 10:00:38AM -0500, Stephen Adler wrote: 
> From: Stephen Adler <[hidden email]> 
> To: "Blu unix (blu)" <[hidden email]> 
> Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 10:00:38 -0500 
> Subject: forcing a file system check 
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> 
> Guys, 
> 
> There was a thread which I started a while back about forcing a file 
> system check on /. There were several suggestions, but I thought of a 
> unique way which I tried and worked. Basically one uses tune2fs to set 
> the max number of mounts between file system checks to 1, reboot, then 
> reset it back to some large number. 
> 
> tune2fs -c 1 /dev/md0 
> reboot 
> tune2fs -c 100 /dev/md0 
> 
> I'm not sure what the default mount count is, so I set it back to 100. 
> 
> Cheers. Steve.