On Thu 12 Oct 2017 at 16:22:27 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > There used to be a filename you could "touch" on the root of a disk that > would force an e2fsck on the next reboot, do you recall it?
That's out of date. Nowadays you add the word forcefsck to the linux line in grub.cfg by pressing <any key at boot> to get the Grub menu, <e> to edit an entry, scroll and add the word, <return> to boot the ephemerally modified entry. Cheers, David.