forced fsck

2016-01-16 Thread ToddAndMargo
sl 7.2 (Yipee!) How do I force an fsck on next reboot on all three of the following partitions: / /boot /home Many thanks, -T

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-16 Thread Brandon Vincent
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:38 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > How do I force an fsck on next reboot on all > three of the following partitions: > > / > /boot > /home First check if all of the systemd-fsck services are enabled. Running blkid(8) should provide you with the UUID for all of y

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-16 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 01/16/2016 06:11 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 3:38 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: How do I force an fsck on next reboot on all three of the following partitions: / /boot /home First check if all of the systemd-fsck services are enabled. Running blkid(8) sh

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-16 Thread Brandon Vincent
On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:06 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Would this be a one time fsck or every boot? As long as the kernel parameter(s) is passed during boot (manually entered or set as the default in GRUB) a fsck should run every time. Brandon Vincent

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-16 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 01/16/2016 07:10 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote: On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:06 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Would this be a one time fsck or every boot? As long as the kernel parameter(s) is passed during boot (manually entered or set as the default in GRUB) a fsck should run every time. Brandon Vin

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-17 Thread David Sommerseth
On 17 January 2016 04:18:22 CET, ToddAndMargo wrote: >On 01/16/2016 07:10 PM, Brandon Vincent wrote: >> On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 8:06 PM, ToddAndMargo >wrote: >>> Would this be a one time fsck or every boot? >> >> As long as the kernel parameter(s) is passed during boot (manually >> entered or set

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-17 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
esumably you are doing this because there is trouble, and in case of trouble, regular boot with "forced fsck requested" will just tell you "run fsck by hand" and dump you into single user mode, which is not as nice as the rescue mode in the installer (no VTs, no job control, n

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Sun, Jan 17, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Konstantin Olchanski wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 02:38:23PM -0800, ToddAndMargo wrote: >> sl 7.2 (Yipee!) >> >> How do I force an fsck on next reboot on all >> three of the following partitions: >> >> / >> /boot >> /home >> > > Boot from instal

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-19 Thread Michael Tiernan
On 1/16/16 10:18 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: Any way to do it once Don't know if it changed since SL6 but touch /forcefsck Then at boot time if there, the fsck will run on all file systems and the flag is deleted. -- << MCT >> Michael C Tiernan xmpp:mtier...@mit.edu +1 (617) 324-9173 MIT -

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-20 Thread ToddAndMargo
On 01/20/2016 05:18 AM, Michael Tiernan wrote: On 1/19/16 5:10 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: This is what I used on SL6. I was never able to figure out whether is "all" the partitions or just "/" partition. It is all that are mounted by the /etc/fstab entries. Thank you! I have wondered about

Re: forced fsck

2016-01-20 Thread Brandon Vincent
On Wed, Jan 20, 2016 at 5:36 PM, ToddAndMargo wrote: > Thank you! I have wondered about that for several years. > > Any idea if the touch thing applies to SL 7 as well? I'm pretty certain as I explained earlier that the forcefsck method is for non-systemd distributions (I could be wrong). Distr