Hi all, I'm using FC4 at a friend's house; he had a system crash some days ago, so I decided to run 'shutdown -Fr now' to force fsck upon next boot. The problem is I got this error when booting:

***An error has ocurred during filesystem verification
***You will be returned to a shell; the system will reboot when you exit the shell
***Warning -- SELinux is active
***Disabling security enforcement for system recovery
***Run 'setenforce 1' to reenable
Give root password for maintenance
(or type Control-D to continue):

When I press ctrl-d the system reboots and forces fsck upon boot. I tried with 'init 0' 'init 6' 'shutdown -fr now' and the system restarts with the same error. My question is, how do I toggle off the fsck forcing upon boot?? Thanks in advance.

The system startup script that controls rebooting, e.g. /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, will include the logic to test to see if you want to do an fsck on reboot. It probably checks for the existence of a sentinel file in the root directory: distributions vary on this. Removing the file should eliminate the check.

On my system, man shutdown says this: Presumably the file is still around.

in /etc/fstab
The 6th column (last) is a fsck option
If it's zero, fsck won't check the filesystem.

I didn't see your replies in time, and had to reinstall . Anyway, thanks for your help.