In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Touloumtzis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time:
> most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the
> presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time. If
> this file exists, all filesystems in /etc/fstab are fsck'ed. So:
> # touch /forcefsck
> # shutdown -r now
> Check out /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh for more details.
The -F flag to shutdown creates the /forcefsck file automatically,
so shutdown -rF does the same. See the shutdown manpage.
Mike.
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