Re: FS corruption... some help maybe??

Andy Poling (andy@globalauctions.com)
Wed, 21 Jul 1999 10:51:22 -0400 (EDT)


On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Joe wrote:
> > Can you tell me, what use rebooting is?
>
> new hardware, sometimes (keyword is sometimes not all the
> time) you may need to reboot for changes in inetd configurations
> to take effect..

killall -HUP inetd

> /etc/hosts file changes,

ifconfig eth0 blah

> how do you run fsck? can you unmount the system drive and
> run fsck on it? And not reboot? If that is the case then rather
> than reboot I'd do that once a week ..

You should not need to run file system checks unless you have hardware or
kernel problems... which you should not have on a production system (despite
what BGInc would tell you).

-Andy

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