Killing fsck safely?

[Matthew Crews]

Appreciate it, I'm glad that a Control-C will allow a graceful exit.

Cheers,

-Matt


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>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject: Re: Killing fsck safely?
>Local Time: November 26, 2017 9:49 PM
>UTC Time: November 27, 2017 4:49 AM
>From: eric.oyen at icloud.com
>To: Matthew Crews <mailinglists at mattcrews.com>, Main PLUG discussion list <plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org>
>
>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:
>
>>
>>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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