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Technical (Development, Security, etc.) => Unix / Linux Discussion => Topic started by: Ergot on April 17, 2006, 02:47:48 PM

Title: What are some things I can do...
Post by: Ergot on April 17, 2006, 02:47:48 PM
After a power outage occurs to make sure everything is working?
Title: Re: What are some things I can do...
Post by: Sidoh on April 17, 2006, 05:42:46 PM
Quote from: Ergot on April 17, 2006, 02:47:48 PM
After a power outage occurs to make sure everything is working?

checkdisk.  That's really the only thing you have to worry about (other than a surge, perhaps) is the corruption of a hard drive segment because the OS was in the middle of writing to it.

I think. :)
Title: Re: What are some things I can do...
Post by: Newby on April 17, 2006, 05:54:42 PM
fsck?

If it's journaling, there's really nothing MUCH to worry about.
Title: Re: What are some things I can do...
Post by: Sidoh on April 17, 2006, 05:58:56 PM
Quote from: Newby on April 17, 2006, 05:54:42 PM
fsck?

If it's journaling, there's really nothing MUCH to worry about.

On Windows, check disk does verify filesystem integrety, right?  At least that's the termonology I'm familiar with.  Is fsck the Linux command to do this?  I'd assume so, but I've never had to do it, so I'm not sure. :)
Title: Re: What are some things I can do...
Post by: Quik on April 17, 2006, 06:33:24 PM
Quote from: Sidoh on April 17, 2006, 05:58:56 PM
Quote from: Newby on April 17, 2006, 05:54:42 PM
fsck?

If it's journaling, there's really nothing MUCH to worry about.

On Windows, check disk does verify filesystem integrety, right?  At least that's the termonology I'm familiar with.  Is fsck the Linux command to do this?  I'd assume so, but I've never had to do it, so I'm not sure. :)

fsck stands for file system check. This is in the Linux board, so I'm assuming Ergot's referring to a Linux computer. fsck would be what your instruction said to do, except newby gave the command.
Title: Re: What are some things I can do...
Post by: Sidoh on April 17, 2006, 06:41:38 PM
Quote from: Quik on April 17, 2006, 06:33:24 PM
fsck stands for file system check. This is in the Linux board, so I'm assuming Ergot's referring to a Linux computer. fsck would be what your instruction said to do, except newby gave the command.

Yeah, I figured out what it stood for, hehe.  I guess it was a stupid question, but oh well.
Title: Re: What are some things I can do...
Post by: iago on April 17, 2006, 09:03:20 PM
If it is important to do, Slackware will do it on the next reboot.  It knows if a filesystem wasn't umounted properly and fsck's it. 

Other than that, you can just cry about lost uptime.  Not much else...
Title: Re: What are some things I can do...
Post by: Joe on April 17, 2006, 09:18:56 PM
ext3 looks after itself. If you're using ext2, you diserve to lose data. <3.
Title: Re: What are some things I can do...
Post by: Ergot on April 17, 2006, 11:55:48 PM
Is ext3 journaling?
Usually after a power outage it does do fsck but this time it didn't so *shrug*. Also when I did try fsck it told me some sort of damage could occur if the filesystem is mounted. Should I ignore that? Otherwise, I don't notice anything wrong with my system. I had a relatively short uptime like 2 hours at the time, so not a lot happened.
Title: Re: What are some things I can do...
Post by: deadly7 on April 18, 2006, 12:14:27 AM
Quote from: Ergot on April 17, 2006, 11:55:48 PM
Is ext3 journaling?
Yes.