Re: How to minimize need for manual fsck after unclean unmount

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

William T Wilson wrote:
> > there some kernel parameter I can tweak so that I'll never have to
> > intervene even if the FS is not unmounted cleanly?
> 
> Check to make sure that e2fsck is being used with the -a or -p options in
> the startup scripts.  That will convert the check at boot from manual mode
> to automatic mode, where it will repair minor filesystem aggravations
> automatically.  Major corruption will still need to be done manually.

Set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS and even major corruption will be
handled automatically.

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