On 07/23/2015 03:07 PM, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Ralph Katz (ralph.k...@rcn.com):
>> So I assumed setting the time interval would force a check on the next >> reboot. syslog shows check not done: >> And again, from tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 >> Last mount time: Thu Jul 23 10:45:36 2015 >> Last checked: Mon May 12 14:08:09 2014 >> >> So the question is, how to set a time interval that actually forces a >> check as suggested my man tune2fs quoted above? Or is this a bug? > > You and I thought the same thing. Looking at Jape's -c 1 (which > has to be reversed after the fsck) and the manpage suggested that > the following command would be ideal: > > # tune2fs -c 0 -i 365 -T 20101010 /dev/sdDN (repeated for each partition) > > This should set up an fsck but with no automatic repetition for a > year, it's easily scripted, would work with remote access (no need to > talk to grub) and even if you boot into a different installation/ > partition. > > But it doesn't work. A bug is already reported: > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=792752 > but it doesn't make it unambiguous that -i expiry doesn't work, > though it implies as much. Thanks David, and I should update my Bug #793322: (debian-reference-en: fsck information is incomplete or misleading) as well. Regards, Ralph
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