[SGVLUG] rsnapshot: the good and the bad - recovery after patching that goes very very wrong

Dustin Laurence dustin at laurences.net
Sun May 13 14:13:15 PDT 2007


On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:49:54AM -0700, Claude Felizardo wrote:
> 
> well the problem is this machine is used as the fileserver so it
> rarely gets shutdown.  like during power outages so sometimes its been
> running for months and months.  So I do want it to run fsck
> occasionally.  I just want to defer it on the last two partitions
> which hold the media and the snapshots since they aren't needed at
> boot.

Well, why not just so mark them in /etc/fstab?  Set the last column to
zero instead of two for those two partitions.

Warning: this means fsck will *never* run at bootup, so be sure you
really want what you asked for. :-)

Dustin

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