Forced FSCK on Bad Reboot

[Stephen Armstrong]

--- Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Jonathan Jefferies wrote:
> 
> > Mike McCarty wrote:
> >
> >>  
> >>
> >> Frankly, I'd rather use write-through.
> >
> >
> > I believe there are three modes that ext3 can be
> setup to do journelling
> > one of which may be write through. Believe those
> modes are set at
> > fdisk time.
> >
> >>
> >> In any case, I don't see any argument for not
> using an extended fsck on
> >> a reboot after improper shutdown, which was my
> original question.
> >
> >
> > Uh, on a megabyte or  10 - 30 GIG  hard drive it's
> a minor 
> > inconvenienc. Running
> > fsck on a 250 GIG hard drive or worse a system
> which has terra byte 
> > systems
> > is something else. Can you say major delays?
> >
> > J.
> >
> I guess it's a matter of how important one's data
> are, and
> when the last backup was done. I come from a Telecom
> background,
> where the loss of even one day's transactions can
> mean $100M USD
> or more. Having a disc check take a few hours is
> nothing by
> comparison with the risk of data loss in that
> context.
> 
> I still haven't seen an argument against having the
> default mode
> be do an extended check.
> 
> Is there a way to change the default reboot mode?
> 
> Mike
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What is "extended fsck" mentioned here? I've only been
doing fsck.ext3 -p(or whatever automatically fix is)
/dev/sda2 (and sda1) is there a more thourough fsck command?

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