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Thor@Flanders

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Registered: 2010-08-27

Posts: 266

(SOLVED)How to I force Arch into maint mode?

Hi,

Okay, maybe (just maybe) I'm panicing ... again. Yesyes...I am an EX crap-dows user, and do need to get used to Linux, nonetheless.

Annother file system check was forced, this time on /dev/sda1, that seems to be my boot partition:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
proc                         0         0         0   -  /proc
sys                          0         0         0   -  /sys
udev                     10240       196     10044   2% /dev
/dev/disk/by-uuid/f38d3d40-b25d-45a5-b21a-8cf371fb5a58
                       7566432   5655828   1526252  79% /
devpts                       0         0         0   -  /dev/pts
shm                     769072        88    768984   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4            232433560  28259812 192366780  13% /home
/dev/sda1               101086     14129     81738  15% /boot
fusectl                      0         0         0   -  /sys/fs/fuse/connections
gvfs-fuse-daemon             0         0         0   -  /home/User01/.gvfs

And it has 10% non-contiguous files...

TEN procent!

Do I need to "wet myself" or is that okay...

If not, I may need to do some maintenance, hence this post: how do I enter maint mode? If needed?

Thor

Last edited by Thor@Flanders (2010-11-18 18:28:32)

canolucas

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Registered: 2010-05-23

Posts: 50

Re: (SOLVED)How to I force Arch into maint mode?

there is no mantenance mode and everything is ok. 10% non-contiguous files is absolutely normal, i have 12%. you will see that number increase and decrease constantly, there is no need to panic.
chances are that the check was forced because you exeded the number of mounts on that partition without checking it. i think a check is forced after you mount a partition 20 times, although that number can of course be modified. for further details, you should read the wiki.
best of lucks with your linux experience

Thor@Flanders

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Registered: 2010-08-27

Posts: 266

Re: (SOLVED)How to I force Arch into maint mode?

Hi canolucas,

Oooooooookay then. And indeed, a check is forced every then-some times.

No need to panic and time to fully trust Linux.

Tnx and wellness to you!

Thor

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: (SOLVED)How to I force Arch into maint mode?

How often the filesystem check is made is set by tune2fs (at least for ext2/3/4).
Your / is 79% full, so you might want to keep an eye on it.

Thor@Flanders

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Registered: 2010-08-27

Posts: 266

Re: (SOLVED)How to I force Arch into maint mode?

Hi karol,

The "full" one is put under "surveillance" and I do clean up the disk at times. The / has been set according to the defaults...no way to change that now, but...I dont need any more stuff installed, so, that's pretty much ok...

Tnx

Thor

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: (SOLVED)How to I force Arch into maint mode?

The / has been set according to the defaults...no way to change that now

Sure you can change it, just back up your stuff in case sth goes wrong. You can take some free space from your /home if you want and resize your / partition.