> On Wed, 11 Jun 1997 d.ferguson@worc.ac.uk wrote:
> 
> > Just tried an fsck to check that the 9gb drive is ok and its taken 
> > over 4 minutes so far ;o)  ( i dont want to risk not doing fsck's 
> > during bootup yet 'cos i want to make sure i added it right...)
> 
> The fsck at boot up only runs if the disc/partition was not unmounted
> properly, so as long as you don't crash/panic etc you'll be ok as the disk
> will be marked clean.

Well, i left it going Friday night to see how long an fsck would take 
and it was 1 hour 7 minutes - it bugs me that i left it go for 1 hour 
five and then stopped it thinking it wasnt doing anything... ;o)

As for fscking it otherwise i was thinking about trying to write a 
cron job that specifically checked that drive.  Thinking about it i 
can probably interrupt fsck if it kicks in on boot-up, so i'll 
probably just do it the normal way anyhow.

Oh well, i can calm down after last weeks 'ruch' now ;o)

Cheers,

  Duncs,

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