[Tfug] fsck question

[Paul Lemmons]

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Subject: Re: [Tfug] fsck question
From: brandon <brandons.daemon at gmail.com>
To: Tucson Free Unix Group <tfug at tfug.org>
Date: 03/18/2010 11:37 AM
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:23 AM, <earljviolet at deserthowler.com 
> <mailto:earljviolet at deserthowler.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have been letting fsck automatically run on my Ubuntu 9.10 install
>     automatically with no problems.  Recently fsck showed some problems.
>
>     I am trying to figure out how to force a run of fsck to correct these
>     problems, or at least show what they are so I can fix them.  I
>     looked in
>     /etc with no luck in finding anything to do with fsck.  The man page
>     doesn't give me any help on this.
>
>     Earl
>     --
>     If you play a Windows install CD backwards it has satanic verses.
>
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> Hi Earl-
> Perhaps I am not fully understanding but you should be able to do a
>
> shutdown -F now
>
> This should create the necessary file to flag the force of a fsck on 
> reboot. Then if there are errors you should be able to take care of 
> them at that time.
>
> Thanks
> -Brandon
>
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|$ sudo touch /forcefsck|
$sudo reboot

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