Where is the script that does the automatic e2fsck's located?

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Thu Mar 17 15:55:44 UTC 2005


Craig White wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 15:30 +0000, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>Ahh, I see, and I have such a file now.  It will now be quite a few 
>>>reboots before I see if that helped though, about 20 to go I believe.  
>>>OTOH, I could use those up in a day or so as I'm tyring to 
>>>troubleshoot why the 2.6.11.2 patch, a simple little 2 liner, should 
>>>break tvtimes audio controls, but it does.  Totally disabling the 
>>>volume control and makeing the resultant audio badly distorted and 
>>>tinny as hell.
>>
>>You can add forcefsck as a parameter to the kernel boot line (e.g. in 
>>grub) to force a filesystem check I think. Or create a file /forcefsck
>>
>>The /fsckoptions and /forcefsck files will get erased at each reboot btw.
> 
> ----
> are you guys gonna keep batting this around?
> 
> man fstab
> 
> see explanation on 6th field

What has that got to do with forcing a filesystem check?

Gene doesn't want to disable the filesystem check, he just wants it to 
be more verbose so it's clear that the system hasn't hung.

Paul.




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