Re: Reiserfsck...when? <partially solved>

On Friday, 06 April 2012 08:28 Insomniactoo wrote:

>   Hi gang,
> 
>   On my openSUSE partition, it somehow or other will do a reiserfsck(?)
> when I reboot from a power outage - automatically. It also does
> *something* that I set the time to have it do it at 0330 in the morning so
> it doesn't suddenly start while I'm doing something important (it takes it
> about 5 minutes more or less to do whatever 'it' is and keeps the hdd
> thrashing like mad until it's done).
> 
>   On my Slackware partition, will this same thing happen if my system goes
> down from a power outage and reboot?
> 
>   Is the 'thing' that is doing whatever at 0330 in the morning an
> 'updatedb'? If it is, is this a thing meant only for rpm based distro's or
> should I do this once in a while on my Slackware too?

  I found the answer to the first part on my own on accident. For some reason 
yesterday after downgrading the alsa packages back to 1.0.24 from 1.0.25, I 
figured I'd logout and log back in. The system hung and wouldn't let me logout 
at all. I could still do everything else on the computer, even browse the web or 
listen to music, but couldn't logout even by commandline. So, I did a hard 
reset. When the system was rebooting, sure enough it saw the file system was 
messed up (I use reiser, always have and it's saved my butt many a time) and did 
a reiserfsck thing before getting me to the login line.

  I suppose I can simply try the 'updatedb' thing and see what happens. Surely 
it can't hurt anything...heh heh.