On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 10:01:30PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > # touch /forcefsck > > I think this is somewhat out of date, is it not.
It is, yes. That no longer works in systemd. > I force fsck by adding forcefsck in grub, ie press e in > the grub menu, move the cursor to the end of the linux line, > type forcefsck and press Ctrl-X or F10 to boot. For example, > > linux /boot/vmlinuz-4.19.0-14-amd64 root=LABEL=toto04 ro > systemd.show_status=true quiet forcefsck The instructions from the bot in #debian say to add fsck.mode=force to the kernel parameters. Perhaps your variant is some sort of alias. I am not aware of any one-shot variant that can be used *before* rebooting, without being physically present at the console. Sadly. The closest approximation would be to permanently edit the grub menu, reboot, and then restore your backup copy of the grub menu.