forcefsck on booting stage

[Pawel Worach]

RW wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 15:10:11 +0200
> Marc L__rner<marc.loerner at hob.de>  wrote:
>
>> On Monday 28 July 2008 15:00, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
>>> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 04:11:49PM +0400, sam wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> How to make 'fsck -f' on booting stage of remote system?
>>> I believe by setting background_fsck="no" in /etc/rc.conf?  That's
>>> the only way I know of, besides booting single user and doing it
>>> manually.
>> Doesn't this only disable background fsck support?
>> By creating file "/forcefsck" you can force an fsck at next reboot,
>> because some scripts test for existence.
>
> That's in linux AFAIK, but it would be fairly straightforward to
> modify /etc/rc.d/fsck to get that behaviour though.
>
> fsck -f is interactive, so you would want to add the -y option to
> prevent its hanging waiting for console input.
>

That is what fsck_y_enable="YES" is for.

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Pawel