e2fsck after hard shutdown

[Michael D. Setzer II]

As root you can run this
# touch /forcefsck

Then the next reboot should result in it running an fsck on the root partition 
as part of the boot.

I have an option on my classroom machines, that has it boot with a kernel 
that runs in just ram, and it does an fsck of all of the regular linux partitions 
on the disk to confirm everything is error free.  One could also boot from a 
live cd and run fsck since the partitions should not be mounted.


On 5 Sep 2015 at 7:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

Subject:        	Re: e2fsck after hard shutdown
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From:           	Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>
Date sent:      	Sat, 5 Sep 2015 07:59:50 +0200
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> On 09/05/2015 07:31 AM, antonio montagnani wrote:
> 
> > do you mean that I could run e2fsck from inside the root shell?
> Yes.
> 
> > I
> > guessed that filesystems were already mounted and e2fsck doesn't work on
> > mounted filesystems.... I have to study. :-)
> 
> Depends, depends on what actually happened/gone wrong.
> 
> In most such cases, the filesystems are mounted read-only or not mounted 
> at all.
> 
> Ralf
> 
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