Re: Killing fsck safely?

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Author: Eric Oyen
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To: Matthew Crews, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Killing fsck safely?
yes, it will finish up what it is doing that second and quit per Control-C. also, a kill -HUP fsck.<fs here> should also safely cause it to quit gracefully.

-eric
from the central office of the Technomage Guild, Technical Services Dept.

On Nov 26, 2017, at 5:48 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:

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> A few days ago I started a fsck run on a large hard drive using the command
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> $ sudo fsck -vcck /dev/whatever
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> I wanted to check the disk for errors. Right now it is several days from finishing.
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> Unfortunately, SRP is planning on a power outage in the next few weeks, and I WILL lose electrical power to the device when it happens.
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> Is it safe to Ctrl+C fsck, or am I screwed regardless?
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> See the Arch Wiki for details on the command:
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/badblocks
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> -Matt
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