best practices using LVM and e2fsck

[Stephen Goldman]

Hello All,
    I support servers the use LVM. When I created the mounts - . I took the defaults and "e2fsck" will kick off  if the system is rebooted if  the mounts  are up beyond 180 days.

    What the best practices here..I see checking the mounts as a good thing.

    I am afraid if I "need" to reboot- which I don't for see and e2fsck kicks off it will take a long time to bring up the server.


    Is it a good idea to plan service outages to run -e2fsck on the mounts beforehand. What do others do ?

Thanks,
Stephen


Stephen Goldman
Systems Administrator  Department of Biology          sgoldman-3s7WtUTddSA at public.gmane.org
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