PC with /home crashed; how to do surface ext2/3 fsck at every single boot ?
 

Hello,

ext2 is dead. Crash, and now recovering I dont know how. :( I guess testdisk, I hope it can read and repair the partition :(
My question : how to do surface ext2/3 fsck at every single boot ?

Use tune2fs to set the maximum number of mounts between fsck checks to 1 for that partition. If the partition is /dev/hda2 then the command is:

tune2fs -c 1 /dev/hda2

See:

man tune2fs

You should do this is on an umounted filesystem.

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Steve Stites

and could you program that at every single boot automatically

I crashed the main partition now with testdisk
what a crap program ...
windows has good recovery program, but with testdisk :(

300 GB ... that's hard

You only run tune2fs once. It sets the number of mounts between fsck runs for that partition. Setting it to 1 means that fsck will be run every time you mount the partition.

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Steve Stites

but the thing with the tune2fs -c 1
is that it just does the fixing of the headers of the disk, and not a very clean and complete surface checking/fixing automatic of the disk
(for instance windows xp has a 5 points checking, last long, but after you have a very clean disk)