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

On Saturday, 07 April 2012 09:14 Claudio Fontana wrote:

> 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


  You beat me to sending I found out about 'updatedb', heh. I appreciate the 
assistance though. Got it pretty much figured out. Thanks.

  John


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