<FONT face="Default Sans Serif,Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif" size=2><div><font color="#990099">-----kwlug-disc-bounces@kwlug.org wrote: -----<br></font>>We just had power drop in the office, and the machines went down hard<br>>before I could shut them all down somewhat gracefully.<br>><br>>My backup/dns server has something like 500gigs, and seems to be<br>>wanting to do a thorough check on all that before it comes back to life. And<br>>that's taking forever. Do I have to let it finish checking the HD's?<br>>or can I skip this. Alternatively, any guesses on how long we have to<br>>wait before our DNS comes back - an hour? Three?<br><br>I would be surprised if you weren't using a journalled file system. Even after a power outage the file system should have been recoverable in a very short time.<br><br>What I suspect is that it checked the file system because of a time limit. If you using Ext3, it has a "Check interval" and a "Maximum mount count". Both will cause a file system check after a period of time or after a file system has been mounted a certain number of times. We generally set these to '0' disabling then. To see what yours is set to use the "mount" command to display the mounted devices, confirm that you're using ext3 and locate the device name for the file system you want to change. Then use the "tune2fs -l /dev/whatever" to display the current settings. Change them using "tune2fs -c 0 -i 0 /dev/whatever" and verify with the first tune2fs command.<br></div></FONT>