Forced FSCK on Bad Reboot

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Jul 15 15:16:52 UTC 2005


Ben Stringer wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 13:09 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I still haven't seen an argument against having the default mode
>>be do an extended check.
>>
>>Is there a way to change the default reboot mode?
>>    
>>
>
>Hi Mike,
>
>Looking in /etc/rc.sysinit, it appears that if you place:
>
>AUTOFSCK_DEF_CHECK=yes
>
>into /etc/sysconfig/autofsck
>
>then the behaviour of the default reboot mode in the case of an unclean
>shutdown toggles from "Press Y to force check" to "Press N to not force
>check", which sounds like the behaviour you are after. (Observed on an
>FC3 system).
>
>Cheers, Ben
>
>
>  
>
Ah, thank you for your help. This message is going into the
"save" list. I'll create /etc/sysconfig/autofsck today.

Mike

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