Can anyone help[

I cant wait for the system to apply a checkdisc when booting up, I
want to manually start one, as when I clonned
over it suggested I do one?

ray

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ray burke wrote:
> I cant wait for the system to apply a checkdisc when booting up, I
> want to manually start one, as when I clonned
> over it suggested I do one?

You can use the command

sudo touch /forcefsck

in a terminal. Then the system will check the disks at the next boot.


Nils

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On 18/03/2011 08:14, Nils Kassube wrote:

ray burke wrote:

I cant wait for the system to apply a checkdisc when booting up, I
want to manually start one, as when I clonned
over it suggested I do one?


You can use the command

sudo touch /forcefsck

in a terminal. Then the system will check the disks at the next boot.

Interesting - mine never seems to check the /home partition, is there
way to force that as well?


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O. Sinclair wrote:
> On 18/03/2011 08:14, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > You can use the command
> >
> > sudo touch /forcefsck
> >
> > in a terminal. Then the system will check the disks at the next
> > boot.
>
> Interesting - mine never seems to check the /home partition, is there
> way to force that as well?

You are right. It seems like only the / partition is checked if the file
/forcefsck is found at boot time. To fsck your /home partition you could
reboot in recovery mode (from the grub menu) and select the root shell
option. Then determine which device is your /home partition with the
command

mount | grep /home

The output should be something like

/dev/sda3 on /home type ext3 (rw)

where /dev/sda3 is the device name. Now umount it with the command

umount /dev/sda3

then run the fsck with the command

e2fsck -f -C0 /dev/sda3

and afterwards mount it again with this command:

mount -a

Of course you would replace the /dev/sda3 in the commands above with the
actual device name of your home partition.

Actually you _could_ do it without rebooting but that would be a bit
more complicated to explain and I would probably miss some possible
problems.


Nils

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Hi !

On 18 March 2011 08:18, O. Sinclair wrote:
> Interesting - mine never seems to check the /home partition, is there way to
> force that as well?

This should be set up in /etc/fstab. This is an excerpt of mine:
# home
UUID=<removed for security reasons> /home reiserfs notail,relatime 0 2

The '2' at the end means check at startup, after you've checked those
with a '1' (usually only /).

Hervé
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2011/3/18 O. Sinclair <o.sinclair@gmail.com>:
> On 18/03/2011 08:14, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>
>> ray burke wrote:
>>>
>>> I cant wait for the system to apply a checkdisc when booting up, I
>>> want to manually start one, as when I clonned
>>> over it suggested I do one?
>>
>> You can use the command
>>
>> sudo touch /forcefsck
>>
>> in a terminal. Then the system will check the disks at the next boot.
>>
> Interesting - mine never seems to check the /home partition, is there way to
> force that as well?

You can use tune2fs to change the max-mount-counts and mount-count
values in a ext2/3/4 filesystem. You can use the -C switch to force a
check at next boot.
From the manual:
-C mount-count
Set the number of times the filesystem has been
mounted. If set to a greater value than the max-mount-counts
parameter set by the -c option, e2fsck(8) will check the filesystem at
the next reboot.

/ Jonas

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thanks will give
"sudo touch /forcefsck" a try and see what happens and report back

ray

On 3/19/11, Jonas Norlander <jonorland@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011/3/18 O. Sinclair <o.sinclair@gmail.com>:
>> On 18/03/2011 08:14, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>>
>>> ray burke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I cant wait for the system to apply a checkdisc when booting up, I
>>>> want to manually start one, as when I clonned
>>>> over it suggested I do one?
>>>
>>> You can use the command
>>>
>>> sudo touch /forcefsck
>>>
>>> in a terminal. Then the system will check the disks at the next boot.
>>>
>> Interesting - mine never seems to check the /home partition, is there way
>> to
>> force that as well?
>
> You can use tune2fs to change the max-mount-counts and mount-count
> values in a ext2/3/4 filesystem. You can use the -C switch to force a
> check at next boot.
> From the manual:
> -C mount-count
> Set the number of times the filesystem has been
> mounted. If set to a greater value than the max-mount-counts
> parameter set by the -c option, e2fsck(8) will check the filesystem at
> the next reboot.
>
> / Jonas
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