fsck in root partition

Jason L Tibbitts III tibbs at math.uh.edu
Sat Jul 23 01:19:36 UTC 2005


>>>>> "PJ" == P Jones <P> writes:

PJ> Has anyone noticed that FC4 won't run fsck automatically at boot
PJ> even if you do a hard reset in the middle of copying a file?

Why should it?  The whole point of a journalled filesystem is that an
fsck run isn't required, even in the case you mention.

Of course, if you really want fsck to be run, you can force it by
pressing "y" when prompted during boot.

 - J<




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