On Mi, 10 dec 14, 11:36:35, Jape Person wrote: > > Using fsck.mode=force on the linux command line works fine for the purpose > of forcing a file system check at home, but I don't see a practical way to > use it on the remote systems. Do I really have to walk each of them through > editing of the linux command line or through alteration of their grub menu, > etc. so they can initiate fsck manually themselves at boot time > once-in-a-while? Or can you think of a way I can be in control of this > without bothering them? Some of these folks would not be good candidates for > performing these changes to such essential parts of their systems. There is a way to tell grub to boot once with a different default entry. It's a long time since I needed that, but a start would be the grub-set-default(8) command. Hope this helps, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic http://nuvreauspam.ro/gpg-transition.txt
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