From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AF081381F3 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 21:37:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 853C2E08F9; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 21:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a78.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A699E07F4 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 21:37:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a78.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a78.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2176420008605 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 14:37:34 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=libertytrek.org; bh=yOm9wCFBNFJ/BF BEuDPnYSj5xMc=; b=DSHGbA2tdz/f43UBMMXihYShKm5nlXmQOXHC4GguTy8Sbr lAIR4No2A3WmUckB4wiwQiSeu9/lirsSiWkW6b2JHftYkPEBOWdfdBKn7ToSm+BM x1D1fKrlfJWWsJ0hGOSHkPYvfwWp8QGryPYBZlHvAE06mXvmCJ+H45FSu183E= Received: from [192.168.1.110] (unknown [159.63.145.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a78.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E4EBB20008603 for ; Sat, 8 Jun 2013 14:37:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <51B3A409.7050701@libertytrek.org> Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2013 17:37:13 -0400 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130328 Thunderbird/17.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] Help running fsck on reiserfs lvm /var on production server? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 95b96cea-8163-4243-a314-e932a48fd3fb X-Archives-Hash: a756e13fd1d930ca066d4a9ad2e6454b Hi everyone, What is best practice for doing this? If I reboot in single user mode, will my lvm volumes (ie, /var) be available for fsck'ing, or do I have to mount them first? The current problem started after a different problem required me to do a hard reset on the server - had to do with a mounted QNAP device being unavailable when I initiated a reboot, and everything just hung. Ever since I did this hard reset, the server hangs at unmounting /var. I've let it sit there for at least an hour, and it never goes past that. Then after I hard reset it, it fsck's /var partition again, maybe fixes minor problems very quickly, and everything works fine until I have to reboot or shutdown again. This became a major problem this weekend when we had one extended power outage (about 8 hours) yesterday evening, then another one (about 4 hours) this morning right after I got everything back up and running from last nights outage. Anyway, I need to do this this weened if at all possible, so... Anyone have any pointers to detailed docs and or willing to hold my hand through this a little? Thanks, Charles