need help to force fsck

muxman · 03-05-2006, 12:45 PM

I've installed debian stable with xfs filesystem and lilo. I'm trying to force a fsck on reboot but it just won't do it.

I've tried shutdown -Fr now and the system just reboots normally.

I've tried putting a file called forcefsck in the / directory and it still just restarts normally.

Is there an issue with forcing fsck and lilo? Or with xfs?

Before I had grub with ext3 filesystem and shutdown -Fr now worked fine, everytime. But it just won't with lilo and xfs.

bigrigdriver · 03-05-2006, 01:01 PM

fsck.xfs(8) - Linux man page
NAME
fsck.xfs - do nothing, successfully
SYNOPSIS

fsck.xfs [ ...]
DESCRIPTION
fsck.xfs is called by the generic Linux fsck(8) program at startup to check and repair an XFS filesystem. XFS is a journaling filesystem and performs recovery at mount(8) time if necessary, so fsck.xfs simply exits with a zero exit status.

If you wish to check the consistency of an XFS filesystem, or repair a damaged or corrupt XFS filesystem, see xfs_check(8) and xfs_repair(8).

muxman · 03-05-2006, 02:06 PM

I've read that and it doesn't say how to make fsck check the filesystem. It tells you it does it automatically at mount, but I want it forced to do it, needed or not to be sure there are no errors.

At mount I can see fsck run, it doesn't do a full check. It runs quickly and then is on the way with the rest of the boot process. I want the full check. Where it runs through the whole disk checking all the files, not a quick two second scan and then continue like normal.

jomen · 03-05-2006, 02:49 PM

I suggest you read through the init-scripts and see which is the one to do the checks and then add the -f option to the script to force a check anyway.
Or add an extra init script that will do this, regardless of if the check, which is done on every boot, has failed or not.