Re: "Run fsck manually"..?
On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:41:54AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:13:16PM -0500, hobie of RMN wrote:
> > He enters "fsck" or "fsck /dev/sda1", and in a short while gets fsck
> > identifying it's version, and nothing else.
>
> There can be issues trying to run fsck on a mounted filesystem. What
> happens if you do:
>
> # touch /forcefsck
Oh, sorry, I missed your mention of (initramfs) prompt. So your
filesystem is too damaged to allow boot to complete and you won't be
able to do that "touch /forcefsck" thing.
If fsck is just printing its version it may think it doesn't need to
be run. You can force it to do a check/repair with "-f", so:
(initramfs) fsck.ext4 -vf /dev/sda1
If it find things that it wants to fix it will ask yuo and you'll
have to press 'y' each time. If you're certain that you always want
to answer 'y' then you can ctrl-c that and try again with -y:
(initramfs) fsck.ext4 -yvf /dev/sda1
If you want to see what it would do without it actually doing it you
can use -n instead of -y.
Cheers,
Andy
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