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Re: forcefsck inconsistency

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On Tue 22 Nov 2016 at 19:50:50 (+0100), Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> trying to force the exec of fsck at boot, I found in init.d/checkfs.sh:
> 
>       if [ -f /forcefsck ] || grep -q -s -w -i "forcefsck" /proc/cmdline
> 		then
> 			force="-f"
> 		else
> 			force=""
> 		fi
> 
> So, I typed "touch /forcefsck", and rebooted.
> This gave me several strange (IMHO) things
> 
> 1/  fsck was run on 3 of my 5 ext4 partitions
>     but not on / (which actually has fs_passno=1)
>     and not for the 5th partition ,/dev/sdg1, which has fs_passno=2.
>     I have in syslog:
> 
>      "EXT4-fs (sdg1): warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended"
> 
> 2/ I have in syslog:
> 
>    "systemd-fsck[2553]: Please pass 'fsck.mode=force' on the kernel
>     command line rather than creating /forcefsck on the root file system."
> 
>    Does that mean that the guys working on checkfs.sh and systemd-fsck don't
>    communicate?
>    Anyway, I also tried this method, which gave me the same results.
> 
>    A workaround would be to boot with a live cd, and run fsck manually, but is
>    there an easier solution?

Some things got a bit out-of-date perhaps. What works is to edit the
linux line in grub, adding

forcefsck

This gets processed by scripts in the initrd.

Cheers,
David.

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forcefsck inconsistency Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2016-11-22 20:00 +0100
  Re: forcefsck inconsistency David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-22 20:50 +0100
    Re: forcefsck inconsistency Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmx.com> - 2016-11-22 23:50 +0100
      Re: forcefsck inconsistency David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2016-11-23 20:10 +0100
        Re: forcefsck inconsistency Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmx.com> - 2016-11-26 10:30 +0100
          Re: forcefsck inconsistency Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2016-11-28 14:20 +0100
            Re: forcefsck inconsistency Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 14:30 +0100
            Re: forcefsck inconsistency Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-11-28 14:50 +0100
              Re: forcefsck inconsistency Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2016-11-28 15:20 +0100
                Re: forcefsck inconsistency Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-11-28 18:10 +0100
                Re: forcefsck inconsistency Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmx.com> - 2016-11-28 20:00 +0100
                Re: forcefsck inconsistency Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-11-29 00:20 +0100
                Re: forcefsck inconsistency Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2016-11-29 08:50 +0100
                Re: forcefsck inconsistency Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org> - 2016-11-29 12:40 +0100
                Re: forcefsck inconsistency Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmx.com> - 2016-11-29 13:50 +0100

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