I’m working with a fanless PC (hundreds of them, in fact) that has debian 6 and 3 partitions( FAT and 2x ext2). The system doesn’t have a power button as such so most people tend to yank the plug to ‘shut it down’ rather than init 0 (or equivalent). As a result the filesystem(s) build up errors pretty rapidly.
I’ve tried using ‘shutdown -rF’ to force fsck but this doesn’t seem to be working. I’m wondering if there is some way to tell the system to check each mount point / FS before they are mounted.
I’ve tried setting the fsck param in /etc/fstab. This typically gives me a ‘Errors found. Run fsck manually’ message.
Are there other options to try?
Answers:
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Method 1
In /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh is the line if [ -f /forcefsck ] || grep -s -w -i "forcefsck" /proc/cmdline, so providing forcefsck on the kernel command line or generating a /forcefsck file on shutdown should cause an fsck on the next reboot.
To prevent manual fsck runs, ask fsck to try to automatically fix errors with the -y option by uncommenting and changing no to yes in the following /etc/default/rcS entry, after the edit it should look like:
# automatically repair filesystems with inconsistencies during boot FSCKFIX=yes
One option (forcefsck or FSCKFIX) does not imply the other.
Method 2
Add the fsck.mode=force Kernel parameter on your bootloader. Append this option to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT= variable inside /etc/default/grub. As root, generate a new grub configuration file:
[[email protected]]# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
This parameter have the same effect as creating the forcefsck file inside the root of the mount point.
The solution of using the checkfs.sh script will better fit on Debian, but should not work on other distros
Method 3
I am editing my answer:
The command is:
sudo tune2fs -c 1 /dev/sdX
according to manpages -c argument for tune2fs counts number of instances of mounts for a partition. Hence, 1 forces to check the fs after every mounting instance.
(http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/tune2fs.8.html)
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