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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yarrina.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!torn!news.bc.net!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!atha!sgiblab!sgigate.sgi.com!swrinde!gatech2!pirates!news-feed-1.peachnet.edu!paperboy.wellfleet.com!news3.near.net!sol.caps.maine.edu!web.ddp.state.me.us!gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us!isdmill From: isdmill@gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us (David Miller) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: BSDI v2.0.1 with distribution innd -> filesytem problems in daily report Date: 17 Nov 1995 18:22:56 GMT Organization: Maine State Governtment Lines: 33 Message-ID: <48iju0$q1m@web.ddp.state.me.us> References: <47tgl7$e48@news.atlantech.net> <486h2r$krq@pegasus.starlink.com> <48d9q6$47q@web.ddp.state.me.us> <48fqhs$dp3@elf.greatis.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gatekeeper.ddp.state.me.us X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Val Kulkov (val@greatis.com) wrote: : Alan Schneider (alschnei@starlink.com) wrote in comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc: : > ramoore@atlantech.net (Randy Moore) wrote: [fsck errors] : > >My solution has been to disable the daily run of fsck. : > : > >Has anyone else had this "problem" and what possible problems : > >am I causing by not running fsck nightly? : > : > I have had the EXACT same problem. I arranged the expire and daily : > crons to run at such times as they do not overlap. This overlap is : > what causes the problem. Even with rearrange, I still catch the tail : > end of expire. I'll probably trash the daily and manually run fsck : > periodically. : Alan, I have exactly the same thing. Could you please specify what time frame : have you assigned between expire and daily fsck? I mean, what time do you : think is sufficient to get rid of this overlap? Why would anyone even *want* to run fsck on a mounted filesystem busy either a) collecting) or b) expiring news? I suggest forgetting it. The only systems fsck should run on in daily are quiet ones, like root. It's of very limited utility - if root or var is messed up for fsck to find, odds are good you've already found out about it another way:) -- David Miller Usual disclaimers apply