Re: How can I force "fsck -y" of a removable usb drive before mounting it?
On Sun, Jun 20, 2021 at 11:09 AM Ottavio Caruso
<ottavio2006-usenet2012@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have a removable mp3 player that gets auto-magically mounted as:
>
> $ mount |grep sdb
> /dev/sdb1 on /media/oc/PHILIPS type vfat
> (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=ascii,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2
>
>
> Every time I plug it in, I get this message in dmesg:
>
>
> [47212.945001] FAT-fs (sdb1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some
> data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
>
> Whatever way I umount this drive (either manually via terminal or
> right-clicking the icon on the desktop), I get the above message when I
> re-mount it.
>
> Is there a way to tell Debian to perform a "fsck -y"
> on the drive before mounting it? For example, an entry in /etc/fstab or
> some trickery somewhere in systemd?
This should be a one-time thing, so if you unmount it from the
terminal and run fsck, it should work next time.
I don't think running fsck automatically is a good idea when you don't
have a way to check the output...
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