[PLUG] Forced fsck

[alan]

On Mon, 8 May 2006, m0gely wrote:

> Bruce Kilpatrick wrote:
>> I have been watching this thread and wondering why I hadn't seen this 
>> forced fsck happen.  It finally occured to me...I rarely shut my Ubuntu box 
>> off.  It hasn't seen 30 boots since I installed Ubuntu on it.  Judging by 
>> what I am reading here, maybe I should manually cause the system to run 
>> fsck once in a while???
>
> I've been watching this too and am puzzled.  What's the point at all? If the 
> system is being shutdown properly then fsck shouldn't be needed on boot 
> outside of special scenarios.  BSD doesn't do this.

There are two times that it will try to force an fsck.

1) When the partition is marked "unclean".  This is when the partition was 
not properly unmounted before a reboot.

2) When the partition has reached a maximal count. This is a parameter 
that is set by tune2fs.  If you are running a machine that has frequent 
reboots, this will happen more frequently than you would want.

It is the second situation that is causing the forced checks.

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