[Voyage-linux] Root partition corrupt

[Robert Vollmert]

On Jul 14, 2009, at 12:00, Jordi Soucheiron wrote:
> I'm working on afew alix based devices working under voyage 0.6 with a
> custom kernel. I found that one of this devices had the file system
> corrupt (I'm using ext2 in some devices and ext3 in some other devices
> I don't remember if it was one or the other, but I don't think this is
> relevant to the problem). When I looked at the mount count it almost
> doubled the amount that should trigger the automatic fsck on boot. I
> been trying to find why fsck hasn't run at boot time even with that
> mount count and with a filesystem state of not clean (the only reason
> I can think of is that due some packages installed the filesystem is
> always in rw mode once set that way). I'd like to have fsck up and
> running again on boot time. Any ideas?

I believe voyage uses the standard debian scripts regarding fsck at  
boot time:

/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh
/etc/init.d/checkfs.sh

These assume you have access to the console on boot up and may prompt  
you either to confirm repairs or even to run fsck manually from a  
shell. There's a setting FSCKFIX=yes/no in /etc/default/rcS that has  
some effect (see rcS(5) or http://da2i.univ-lille1.fr/cgi-bin/man/man2html?rcS+5) 
. Finally, there's a field in /etc/fstab that affects whether "fsck - 
a" checks a given filesystem -- not sure if it applies to the root  
filesystem.

Cheers
Robert