Commit 7d9191ee authored by Toon Claes's avatar Toon Claes

Small documentation reformatting and updates

parent 583e7fe9
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## Periodic checks
When enabled, GitLab periodically runs a repository check on all project
repositories and wiki repositories in order to detect data corruption problems.
When enabled, GitLab periodically runs a repository check on all project
repositories and wiki repositories in order to detect data corruption problems.
A project will be checked no more than once per month. If any projects
fail their repository checks all GitLab administrators will receive an email
notification of the situation. This notification is sent out once a week on
Sunday, by default.
Sunday, by default.
## Disabling periodic checks
......@@ -28,16 +28,22 @@ panel.
## What to do if a check failed
If the repository check fails for some repository you should look up the error
in repocheck.log (in the admin panel or on disk; see
`/var/log/gitlab/gitlab-rails` for Omnibus installations or
`/home/git/gitlab/log` for installations from source). Once you have
resolved the issue use the admin panel to trigger a new repository check on
the project. This will clear the 'check failed' state.
in `repocheck.log`:
- in the [admin panel](logs.md#repocheck.log)
- or on disk, see:
- `/var/log/gitlab/gitlab-rails` for Omnibus installations
- `/home/git/gitlab/log` for installations from source
Once you have resolved the issue use the admin panel to trigger a new
repository check on the project. This will clear the 'check failed'
state.
If for some reason the periodic repository check caused a lot of false
alarms you can choose to clear ALL repository check states from the
'Settings' page of the admin panel.
alarms you can choose to clear *all* repository check states by
clicking "Clear all repository checks" on the 'Settings' page of the
admin panel.
---
[ce-3232]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/3232 "Auto git fsck"
[git-fsck]: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-fsck.html "git fsck documentation"
[git-fsck]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fsck "git fsck documentation"
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