ubuntu/debian: how to : fsck.ext3 /dev/hda1 at the next reboot?

frenchn00b · 01-11-2010, 10:43 AM

I would like to do :

badblocks from fsck for my / of ext3 type.

Code:

 fsck.ext3 -p -c /dev/hda1

Code:

# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/hda: 60 GB, 60011642880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System 
/dev/hda1   *           1        2804    22523098    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2            2805        7108    34563847   83  Linux
/dev/hda3            7109        7296     1502077    5  Extended
/dev/hda5            7109        7296     1502077   82  Linux swap
Warning: Partition 5 does not end on cylinder boundary.

How can this be possible at reboot (badblocks) ?

(I cannot gparted nor usb because nothing is working)
it should fix itself linux (without usb live bootable)

the trooper · 01-11-2010, 10:50 AM

Well,according to fdisk hda1 is an NTFS partition,however to answer your question you can force a fsck at next boot with:

Quote:

shutdown -F now

This has to be run as root of course.

frenchn00b · 01-22-2010, 12:08 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by the trooper

Well,according to fdisk hda1 is an NTFS partition,however to answer your question you can force a fsck at next boot with:

This has to be run as root of course.

that's cool. thank you. I learned that the 0 1 2 at the end of /etc/fstab are important:

Code:

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point>   <type>  <options>       <dump>  <pass>
proc            /proc           proc    defaults        0       0
/dev/hdf1       /               ext3    errors=remount-ro 0       1
/dev/hdf2       none            swap    sw              0       0
/dev/sdb1       /home           ext3    defaults        0       2

0 for no checking
1 for the "/" root
2 for the /home or anythign else than "/" root

man shutdown. I should haved checked the man of shutdown. It is amazing. I never thought that linux had that too. Man, linux has everything of windows. Even more than it. we do more than linux, but windows xp users think only that windows is everything and can everything.

Quote:

-F Force fsck on reboot.