Regular FSCK Required ?

[Chris Torek]

In article <1235 at cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au> nigel at cnw01.storesys.coles.oz.au
(Nigel Harwood) writes:
>Is a regular FSCK required ?

No---unless something is broken, fsck should be necessary *only* after
a power-failure crash or hardware error.  (If something *is* broken,
fix it.  If you do not have source, switch to BSD Unix.)

>Because of the low computer skill level at these sites it is a
>real battle to get any normal SA things done, like for example a
>regular FSCK of the file systems (i.e. once a week).

Do not allow fsck to change a file system that is mounted.
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