Jape,

It sounds like the fsck is being conducted while the initramfs is loaded
and thus no log is being saved. Ideally, there would be a way to have the
console dumped to dmesg.

Brandon Vincent


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 2:49 PM, Jape Person <jap...@comcast.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just used
>
> # apt-get install systemd-sysv
>
> on several Debian testing systems (fully up-to-date).
>
> It has been my habit to use
>
> # touch /forcefsck
>
> to force a file system check at reboot once per week on each system and to
> keep track of the results by copying the contents of
> /var/log/fsck/checkroot into a sort of diary I keep on system maintenance.
>
> In various logs on these systems I see an indication that "touch
> /forcefsck" doesn't work with systemd running the show, and that adding
>
> fsck.mode=force
>
> to the linux boot line in Grub is now the proper way to force fsck to run
> at boot time.
>
> However, though I see that fsck is running when I boot the system after
> altering the boot process, there is still no output from the operation
> written to the checkroot file. I presume this is part of the rhubarb I've
> noticed on various lists concerning the logging of the boot process when
> using systemd.
>
> This is hardly a huge problem for me, but I'd like to keep practicing this
> slightly OCD behavior if I can on a couple of the more critical machines.
>
> Would anyone have thoughts on how I can get a record of the file system
> check on the boot drive when using systemd?
>
> If there's something about this in the man pages, I'm certainly not
> finding it.
>
> Thanks for any pointers you can provide.
>
>
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