fsck taking forever

da644 · #1 16th March 2006, 09:32 AM

Hi All.

We have a FC4 server with 6x250Gb hard drives (1.5TB capacity) all compiled into a single volume. Over the weekend at some point the server crashed. When I restarted it on Monday morning it came up with an error at the disk section and said it couldn't continue and kicked me to the console. The disk was mounted and I could see all the directories and files within the directories. I started fsck and it has been running since finding and fixing errors. The was 3 days ago and it is still going.

Anyone have any idea if this is a normal amount of time for it to run and also how much longer it is going to take?

It is still working as it keeps finding and fixing new errors.

Thanks for any help in advanced.

Andrew.

daverj · #2 16th March 2006, 11:43 AM

well, 1.5TB is a lot to go through. How long it takes depends upon the number of errors it finds. Also, as long as it is not hanging, but is working, you just have to let it do its thing.

da644 · #3 27th March 2006, 11:21 AM

Ok, we let it run for 2 weeks, but enough is enough, that it a stupid amount of time to run a disk scan. I have stopped it now and booted into linux rescue from the CD and the file system is there and everything seems to be intact. Is there anyway I can stop the system from running the disk scan at boot? I have tried removing the /.autofsck file but that didn't work. I also tried adding a file called fastboot to the /etc directory, but that didn't work either. Anyone know how to bypass this check in FC4?

Thanks.

Andrew.