Force integrity check of filesystem at boot

[V V Raja Rao]

When I boot my machine after a power down, I get the following message...

"Your system appears to have shut down uncleanly Press Y within 5 seconds to
force file system integrity check"

How can I make this automatically say "yes" everytime?

raja.

[Sam Varshavchik]

V V Raja Rao writes:
> When I boot my machine after a power down, I get the following message...
>
> "Your system appears to have shut down uncleanly Press Y within 5 seconds to
> force file system integrity check"
>
> How can I make this automatically say "yes" everytime?

A better question would be:

How would you prevent your system from shutting down uncleanly, every time?

[Paul Almquist]

On Sunday 29 May 2005 20:36, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> V V Raja Rao writes:
> > When I boot my machine after a power down, I get the following
> > message...
> >
> > "Your system appears to have shut down uncleanly Press Y within 5 seconds
> > to force file system integrity check"
> >
> > How can I make this automatically say "yes" everytime?
>
> A better question would be:
>
> How would you prevent your system from shutting down uncleanly, every time?

How are you shutting down?
You should use shutdown, halt, reboot, poweroff commands or select shutdown 
option from your GUI login manager.  These will start an orderly shutdown of 
all processes sync the filesystems (write all unwritten buffers in RAM to 
disk) and mark them clean before unmounting them.

[Les Mikesell]

On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 06:30, Paul Almquist wrote:
> > > When I boot my machine after a power down, I get the following
> > > message...
> > >
> > > "Your system appears to have shut down uncleanly Press Y within 5 seconds
> > > to force file system integrity check"
> > >
> > > How can I make this automatically say "yes" everytime?
> >
> > A better question would be:
> >
> > How would you prevent your system from shutting down uncleanly, every time?
>
> How are you shutting down?

Another interesting question here: why are you using a journalling file
system if you don't trust it to work by replaying the journal after
a crash?  That's what you are saying when you answer yes to this
choice.

[Thufir]

On 5/30/05, Les Mikesell  wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 06:30, Paul Almquist wrote:
> > > > When I boot my machine after a power down, I get the following
> > > > message...
> > > >
> > > > "Your system appears to have shut down uncleanly Press Y within 5 seconds
> > > > to force file system integrity check"
> > > >
> > > > How can I make this automatically say "yes" everytime?
> > >
> > > A better question would be:
> > >
> > > How would you prevent your system from shutting down uncleanly, every time?
> >
> > How are you shutting down?
>
> Another interesting question here: why are you using a journalling file
> system if you don't trust it to work by replaying the journal after
> a crash?  That's what you are saying when you answer yes to this
> choice.

...

it's happened that I don't respond in time.

-Thufir

[Mike Klinke]

On Sunday 29 May 2005 20:32, V V Raja Rao wrote:
> When I boot my machine after a power down, I get the following
> message...
>
> "Your system appears to have shut down uncleanly Press Y within 5
> seconds to force file system integrity check"
>
> How can I make this automatically say "yes" everytime?
>
> raja.

Take a look here:

/usr/share/doc/initscripts-7.93.7/sysconfig.tx

Search for:

/etc/sysconfig/autofsck

Regards, Mike Klinke