On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 23:50 +0000, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Thursday 03 March 2005 23:05, A. Khattri wrote:
> > You can also force a full fsck every time you boot by creating the file
> > /forcefsck (e.g. "touch /forcefsck") when shutting down - the next time
> > you restart it will do a full fsck of all disks.
>
> Not quite. You need to set the last field of each partition line in fstab to
> a
> number greater than 1, otherwise the forcefsck won't touch them.
however, while looking into this, (because I noticed I haven't ever seen
the filesystem check when I shutdown uncleanly) I found
in /etc/init.d/checkfs:
fsck -C -T -R -A -a
now I'm happy with all of that except the -R, according to man fsck:
-R When checking all file systems with the -A flag, skip the root
file system (in case it's already mounted read-write).
Am I right when I read this as "don't even bother to try to check the
root fs"? Shouldn't it be rather "try to check the root fs unless its
mounted read-write"?
any thoughts?
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