On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Mihaly Gyulai wrote:
: On Thu, 6 Jan 2000 16:40:56 Nico De Ranter wrote:
:
: >> At boot, there is a message about 'running e2fsck is recommended'
: >> because the mounting of partitions happened too many times.
: >> How can I set to run 'e2fsck' after a given number of days ?
:
: >Normaly the filesystem will automaticaly be checked after a number
: >of mounts. You shouldn't do anything yourself. You'll notice
: >when he starts checking the filesystem, it will take ages to boot :-)
:
: The problem is: I did not notice the expected 'e2fsck' running,
: however it should run (since 3 months). And there is the warning
: message that fsck is needed.
:
: Q. How can I set 'e2fsck' to run, whenever I want ?
:
: (I know that one should not run fsck on a mounted partition,
: so it's not that easy to run it...)
You can always force fsck on reboot by using "-F" as an argument to
`shutdown' e.g
shutdown -F -r now # reboot and force fsck on all filesystems with
# flag "auto" in /etc/fstab ("defaults" implies
# "auto").
HTH,
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