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

Claudio Fontana <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.slackware
Message-ID <CAJuRt+p7yrKcNwR9wXG8gU3h1BaJBguUzA_i3y_QYyH48wzUvw@mail.gmail.com>
On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 2:51 PM, Insomniactoo <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

Learning path:

man updatedb (or man slocate)
cat /etc/updatedb.conf
cat /etc/cron.daily/slocate
sudo crontab -l root (or run as the root user: crontab -l root)
man crontab

Ciao,

Claudio
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