/.autofsck continually updated every reboot

[Joe Zeff]

On 07/03/2011 03:09 PM, Sam Sharpe wrote:
> If the file is detected at startup,_then_  the system will perform an
> fsck. So it is normal for this file to exist while the system is
> running normally. If you really want to test this, shut down your
> system normally and then boot it from a livecd - I suspect if you
> examine the root filesystem, you will find that the .autofsck file has
> been deleted.

Another way to check this is to run these commands in a terminal:

cd /
ls -la .autofsck

and check the file's timestamp.  The creation time should be at roughly 
your most recent boot.