On Windows, we’ve had the defrag tool and others, that happily works on a drive even while it is in use, even the OS disk.

On Linux, I know of the fsck command but that requires the drive in question to be unmounted. Not great when you want to check a running server. I do not want to stop my server and boot it from USB, just to run a disk check. I can’t imagine that’s what the data centers are doing, either!

Surely some Linux tool exists that can do some basic checks on a running system?

  • teft
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    01 year ago

    How does that invalidate anything I said?

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Dude I think this is a more you ain’t smart enough to know that youre not smart… just take the L