Re: tlug: LILO Vs. 1024 - Round 2

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Scott> On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Jonathan Byrne - 3Web wrote:
    >> Thanks for the tune2fs info, I'll certainly use it.  Is it OK
    >> to also do that while booting off the old disk, with the new
    >> one unmounted?  I do leave my system powered up all the time,
    >> so what fsck frequency would you suggest?

Install lots of betas, you'll be hard resetting enough that your
system will get plenty fsck'd up.

    Scott> I remember that I was surprised the first time I saw the
    Scott> "/dev/hda3 has reached maximal mount count, check forced"
    Scott> on my home machine - the machines at the office that are
    Scott> left powered up don't ever hit it, at least not that I've
    Scott> noticed.  Probably still a good idea to stagger them out,
    Scott> however, as Rex suggested, just in case you plan to crash
    Scott> your system a lot :)

Actually, I find that a 500MB fsck is too long not to get o-yatsu, not
long enough that I haven't wasted uptime when I get back ;-)  So I
don't stagger my fsck's.

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