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by **Tony** » Fri, 15 Jan 1999 04:00:00

Is there a way to force Linux to do an e2fsck on a partition when it is
rebooted.
At times I have to reboot a system via telnet from a remote location.
Normally I have to reboot because of a problem with the system and at times
it is only resolved if someone or myself runs e2fsck.
I would like to be able to reboot the PC and have it run e2fsck without me
having to go to where the PC is and manually do an e2fsck.
I guess I could put this in one of the files loaded at boot time, but can I
make it do the check and fix any errors it finds without having to wait for
a key input to answer yes to a question?
Thanks
Tony

by **Cameron Spitze** » Sat, 16 Jan 1999 04:00:00

>Is there a way to force Linux to do an e2fsck on a partition when it is
>rebooted.
>I would like to be able to reboot the PC and have it run e2fsck without me
>having to go to where the PC is and manually do an e2fsck.
>I guess I could put this in one of the files loaded at boot time, but can I
>make it do the check and fix any errors it finds without having to wait for
>a key input to answer yes to a question?

man e2fsck
e2fsck -c -f -p -y /dev/hda6

In Debian there is a file /etc/init.d/checkroot.sh which runs at boot time.
If you run Debian, you could put your e2fsck command right after
echo "Checking root file system..."
fsck $force $fix /
(but you'd have to create a file /forcefsck) or right before the
mount -n -o remount,rw /

On another distribution you'll find those same operations in some other script.

Cameron

by **Juergen Hein** » Sat, 16 Jan 1999 04:00:00

>Is there a way to force Linux to do an e2fsck on a partition when it is
>rebooted.

Yes, either run e2fsck with -f or, if shutdown is called with -F, the
file /forcefsck will be created and you can evaluate it in your
boot script. Here it depends and my bcheckrc looks like this ...

[blablabla]
if [ -f /forcefsck ]
then
FSFORCEFSCK=-f
fi
[blablabla]
/sbin/e2fsck $FSFORCEFSCK -p $FSDEV; FSSTATUS=$(( FSSTATUS | $? ))
[blablabla]

... you get the idea. How to do it finally depends, so I cannot just
send you my bcheckrc in the hope it works.

Cheers,
Juergen

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