Quick question about FSCK

[MikeHunt79]

I've got a machine, all it does it sit there and backup some files once a day with a cron job.

Now, I think FSCK gets run on a drive every 30 mounts or something like that, but as this machine get left on 24/7, this surely means that my drive will never gets FSCK'ed?

Is this bad? Would it be worth having a cron job to unmount my partition then FSCK it (then remount?)?

 

[MikeTimbers]

You shouldn't be running fsck unless you need it. There's no need to schedule one unless you're running some stupidly experimental beta filesystem.

 

[MikeHunt79]

You shouldn't be running fsck unless you need it. There's no need to schedule one unless you're running some stupidly experimental beta filesystem.

Just running EXT3 on a hardware raid1 card.

I'm a bit of a Linux n00b you see, and I wanted to check everything is running as it should but by the sounds of it I'm making a problem where there isn't one.