On 13/01/2018 23:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:57:59 -0600, John Johnson wrote: > >> Shouldn't that be taken care of by the "/etc/fstab" entries? > > Those say whether the filesystem should be checked, not when. > >> Obviously, if "/usr" is on a separate partition, it needs to be mounted >> at the time when "/usr/sbin/fsck" is expected to be present. > > fsck is in /sbin, but that's not the point. If you have an initramfs, > fsck should be in it and run before /usr is mounted rw, which means it > has to be done by the initramfs. It's too late to do it when control has > been handed over because then /usr is already mounted rw.
So what does the dirty check and fsck of / ? I don't have an initramfs, I don't have a separate /usr, I run OpenRC and the kernel command line says where / is for mounting -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
