Urgent fsck help

[subbass]

Hi,

I know you can do touch forcefsck or run shutdown -rF now to run fsck upon reboot but as far as I'm aware it may still require user intervention; is that correct?. Is there a way of running it without any user intervention and set it up to fix all errors?

It's a ubuntu server btw.

Thanks

 

[subbass]

Cheers Scott.

It has errors on one of the partition (/var)I believe but I was thinking of doing the whole disk. How long will it approximately take to run with about 800GB (thousands of files!) of data? it's a production server so I don't want it to take 3 days and be offline

 

[subbass]

Intermittent "ext3 fs error start transaction" is what I'm getting on one of the partitions and when it happens the server is not accessible from the network. I will run the fsck on /var.

Thanks for your help.