I have a linux box at a remote location that does not have a monitor/keyboard hooked up to it. I am concerned that even though fsck is run with the -y flag on startup that in some conditions that it may prompt the user to type Control-D to continue. For example I have simulated one of the drives disappearing from the system and the /etc/fstab referencing a drive that no longer exists. This causes fsck to prompt me to enter Control-D. Since I don't have console access to the box it would be impossible to clear this error and continue to boot.

Does anyone have any advice on how to avoid these kind of problems? Is disabling fsck on boot my only option here?

Thank you.

Hi, and welcome to LQ!

My personal suggestion would be to choose Reiser or XFS
who don't have that problem as your file-system for that
box ...



Cheers,
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