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That's out of date.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.

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