[Voyage-linux] Root partition corrupt

[Jordi Soucheiron]

That was extremely useful (FSCKFIX was set to no). Thanks!

2009/7/14 Robert Vollmert <rvollmert-lists at gmx.net>:
> 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
>
>



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