On 07/19/2012 09:49 AM, Orion Poplawski wrote: > On 07/19/2012 10:44 AM, David Sommerseth wrote: >> On 18/07/12 23:02, Orion Poplawski wrote: >>> On 07/18/2012 02:50 PM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote: >>>> >>>> I don't know the exact number, I think it is 27 reboots, >>>> your boot will automatically drop to an FSCK. In RHEL5, >>>> your would see a status bar showing you progress. In 6, >>>> you get no indication that an FSCK is happening and you >>>> think you are frozen. The temptation to throw the power >>>> switch is overwhelming. >>> >>> I can't speak to the lack of status, but you can disable the automatic >>> fsck with: >>> >>> tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/.... >>> >>> This is pretty much done automatically now for any filesystems that the >>> install makes, but not ones that you create later. >> >> If using ext{2,3,4}, I would strongly recommend *against* doing this. >> Running fsck from time to time isn't a bad thing. It can surely happen >> that it finds some things which should be fixed. If this is needed fro >> xfs, I dunno. For reiserfs it is not needed, it will take care of this >> on its own - and really needed, it'll scream loudly and you won't be >> able to mount that partition/lv and this fix might take hours to >> complete. Regarding other file systems, I have no experience. >> >> Removing these fsck's is like skipping taking your car to a car check >> every now and then. You car may run for a long way without a service. >> But when it is really needed, it can take a long time to fix and might >> be more costly compared to if you did this regularly ... and if you want >> a reliable server, having a little maintenance downtime couple of times >> during a year might not be such a bad investment - in the long run. >> >> Just my 2cents > > Rebooting a critical server only to have it be down unexpectedly for a > long period of time while it does a filesystem check is a problem too. > While periodically running fsck on your system may be a good idea, it > should be done at predictable times. > RFE: May we have "shutdown -F" back? https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733874 Don't waste your time looking, the answer was "no".