[CLUE-Tech] fsck log

[Angelo Bertolli]

Well I understand that you can't write to the disk WHILE it's being
checked, but maybe the creation of a ramdisk for the log, which then gets
copied to /var/logs/fsck.log would be ok.

Angelo

 On Thu, 27 May 2004, David Anselmi wrote:

> Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> > I'm planning on running shutdown -r -F around 3 am, and I wanted to know
> > if fsck logs any filesystem erros.  I would like to know if it found
> > anything.  I do not have a terminal access to this server, so I wouldn't
> > even be able to watch it if I did stay up that late.
>
> It looks like fsck only writes to stdout.  Logging output of boot
> scripts is problematic (but it would be cool if someone would code a way
> to do it -- they did for the kernel).  A serial console and console
> server would be a big help.
>
> If what you want is to fsck the disks, you don't have to reboot for
> that.  You can do it by hand (or script it if you want to run it late)
> and then save off the output however you want.  Figuring out how to
> mount /var as read-only while the system is running might be tricky, but
> maybe you don't need to check /var.
>
> HTH,
> Dave
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