[rhelv6-list] fsck -n always showing errors

[Tim Mooney]

In regard to: rhelv6-list Digest, Vol 76, Issue 1, rhelv6-list-request at redh...:

> This isn't something we routinely look at, but after
> a couple of VMware systems showing scsi errors, I noticed almost
> every Redhat 6 system will show some disk errors from
> something like fsck -n / or same on /var
>
> # fsck -n /
> fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
> e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010)
> Warning!  /dev/sda1 is mounted.

There's your problem.  Don't run fsck on a mounted filesystem.  Even
with -n, it just shows you false positives.

Do some web searching for

 	fsck on a mounted filesystem

to understand why.

Tim
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