Re: How do I trigger an fsck on boot for a drive not in fstab?

[Chris Schanzle]

On 10/28/2012 03:29 AM, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:

On 10/27/2012 07:42 PM, Steven J. Yellin wrote:

      You can put an fsck command in /etc/rc.d/rc.local.

Steven Yellin

On Sat, 27 Oct 2012, Todd And Margo Chester wrote:

Hi All,

SL 6.2, x64

I have an "ext 4" drive (/dev/sdb1)  I use for backup that is
deliberately not in my fstab.

"touch /forcefsck" will only force a check on my main ("/")
drive.

Question: is there a way to trigger an an fsck at boot on
this backup drive?

Many thanks,
-T

Thank you.  Thank will work.

Actually, I am trying to solve the mystery of how to get it to
fsck at the same time as "touch /forcefsck".  Do you know
how to do this?

Many thanks,
-T

Hi Todd,

Have you perused through tune2fs(8) to notice you may set a max-mount-counts to 
1 or maybe a daily interval-between-checks to 1d?

Why are you so adverse to an fstab entry?  If you specify option "noauto" it 
won't be mounted on boot, but it *might* fsck with the others.