- how can i tell gentoo to do a real complete check of the rootfs at startup (where the rootfs should be read-only mounted) - how can i do that via ssh on a running system - which paramters can i pass when booting gentoo, so that it boots into maintainance mode where the rootfs is still mounted read-only?
Answer to both questions: you can't do this booted from your gentoo system (standard *nix problem - checking a fs requires read only mode, but root fs is r/w when booted.)
Yes, exactly, but at startup, when /etc/init.d/checkroot is run, the rootfs is mounted read-only!
What you need to do is get a LiveCD (almost any distro, Knoppix, etc). Boot from the CD, mount your gentoo root fs as read only, and run your filessytem check and/or recovery utilities.
I wouldn't, if there'd be a way to run a full check on startup while the rootfs has not been mounted read-write yet.
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