[mythtv-users] ext4 fsck after power outage

[scram69]

On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:10 AM, Phill Edwards <philledwards at gmail.com> wrote:
> I recently moved from Centos 5 to Fedora 12 and tonight had a power
> outage. The machine wouldn't come back up without me running some
> manual fsck commands which is really bad for the WAF.
>
> Does ext4 work with /etc/sysconfig/autofsck? If I put the following
> lines in that file will this ensure that everythgin happens
> automatically?
>    AUTOFSCK_TIMEOUT=5
>    AUTOFSCK_DEF_CHECK=yes
>
> I'm a little wary of adding these lines because I read that doing this
> with a journalled file system like ext3 (and therefore ext4?) can
> cause teh file system check to screw things up (see
> http://www.brunolinux.com/04-The_File_System/Auto_Fsck.html)
>
> My objective is to have the box do an automatic file system check on
> the ext4 partitions when it powers back on after an unclean shutdown
> with no user input required. If this isn't the correct way, does
> anyone know what is?
>
> Regards,
> Phill

or better yet, pick up an inexpensive UPS - something that will run
for 5 or 10 minutes, long enough for nut to initiate a "clean"
shutdown.