Re: How can I force a full fsck on a remote system at next reboot?

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> [2015-03-12 11:04 -0500]:

> Quoting Jape Person (japers@comcast.net):

[...]

> > Hi, Elimar.
> > 
> > So, are you suggesting that this shutdown function (-F, for forcing
> > fsck at boot) is available with the shutdown command if I switch
> > from systemd-sysv to sysvinit, or that it is available regardless of
> > init system in Sid?

Indeed, yes.

> 
> If you run systemd, halt, poweroff, reboot and shutdown are all links
> to systemctl. No -F option.
> 
> If you run sysvinit, you should have package sysvinit-core installed,
> wherein halt (poweroff, reboot) and shutdown are binaries. Their
> manpages indicate support for -F.

Thats correct

> I can't check whether it then actually works because this laptop is
> running systemd; though I may be reverting for reasons that I might
> outline in a different thread, perhaps "No feedback from systemd ..."

It runs perfect here.

Elimar
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