e2fsck doesn't run after "maximal mount count reached" during boot?

[Shern, Benjamin J]

If you're already overdue for a fsck I think you'll get one anyway, I don't
think you need to change the interval to every day.  But yes - I believe
that should work.


  > -----Original Message-----
  > From: Ralph Crongeyer [mailto:rcrongeyer at rpicc.com] 
  > Sent: April 23, 2003 10:04 AM
  > To: Lunar Linux Mailing List! (all are welcome)
  > Subject: Re: e2fsck doesn't run after "maximal mount count 
  > reached" during boot?
  > 
  > 
  > On Wednesday 23 April 2003 11:49 am, Shern, Benjamin J wrote:
  > 
  > OK, if I change the 0 to a 1 and run tune2fs -i 1 /dev/hda2 
  > to change the 
  > amount of time to 1 day then reboot it should run fsck right?
  > 
  > Ralph
  > 
  > > This here is the culprit -
  > > According to the fstab(5) manpage the last digit for root 
  > should be 1 and
  > > all others should be 2.  Lunar install defaults to 0 
  > which means don't
  > > check....
  > > Ben
  > >
  > >   > -----Original Message-----
  > >   > From: Shern, Benjamin J
  > >   > Sent: February 12, 2003 10:59 AM
  > >   > To: 'lunar at lunar-linux.org'
  > >   > Subject: Root disk not getting fsck
  > >   >
  > >   >
  > >   > Yikes!!!
  > >   >
  > >   > My root partition was not getting fsck'ed after an 
  > unclean dismount.
  > >   > I believe I see why:
  > >   >
  > >   > Just a heads-up for those of you who have a /boot partition
  > >   > on ext2 and /
  > >   > partition on some other fs type.....
  > >   >
  > >   > Check your /etc/fstab and make sure the last digit is
  > >   > non-zero on any
  > >   > partitions you care about!
  > >   > Ben
  > >   >
  > >   >
  > >   >
  > >   > lunar.install from the .iso :
  > >   >
  > >   > determine_fstab_settings()  {
  > >   >
  > >   >   LAST="0 0"
  > >   >   case  $FSYS  in
  > >   >         swap)  OPTIONS="defaults"                        ;;
  > >   >     reiserfs)  OPTIONS="defaults,notail,noatime"         ;;
  > >   >         ext3)  OPTIONS="defaults,noatime"                ;;
  > >   >          xfs)  OPTIONS="defaults,noatime"
  > >   > ;;
  > >   >         ext2)  OPTIONS="defaults,noatime"
  > >   >                case  $POINT  in
  > >   >                  /)  LAST="0 1"                          ;;
  > >   >                  *)  LAST="0 2"                          ;;
  > >   >                esac
  > >   >                ;;
  > >   >   esac
  > >   > }
  > >   >
  > >   > -----Original Message-----
  > >   > From: Shern, Benjamin J 
  > [mailto:ShernBJ at louisville.stortek.com]
  > >   > Sent: April 23, 2003 9:46 AM
  > >   > To: 'Lunar Linux Mailing List! (all are welcome)'
  > >   > Subject: RE: e2fsck doesn't run after "maximal mount count
  > >   > reached" during boot?
  > >   >
  > >   >
  > >   > The root partition should be mounted read-only - at which
  > >   > point it can
  > >   > be fsck'ed.  After it comes back clean, it should be
  > >   > mounted read-write.
  > >   > Ben
  > >   >
  > >   >   > -----Original Message-----
  > >   >   > From: Terry Chan [mailto:tpchan at attbi.com]
  > >   >   > Sent: April 23, 2003 9:41 AM
  > >   >   > To: lunar at lunar-linux.org
  > >   >   > Subject: Re: e2fsck doesn't run after "maximal mount count
  > >   >   > reached" during boot?
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > Ralph,
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > No it can't really happen automatically.  Slight chicken
  > >   >   > and egg problem.
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > You can't run e2fsck on a partition that is 
  > mounted already
  > >   >   > -- it must be run
  > >   >   > against a partition that is NOT mounted.  Egg part is that
  > >   >   > the e2fsck binary is
  > >   >   > only located on the partition that you are trying to fsck.
  > >   >   > That's why you
  > >   >   > need to boot from another source like the ISO to run
  > >   >
  > >   > e2fsck.  See ?
  > >   >
  > >   >   > Terry Chan
  > >   >   > 
  > ----------------------------------------------------------------
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 08:51:48AM -0400, Ralph 
  > Crongeyer wrote:
  > >   >   > > Terry, Thanks for the response. I just did that and it
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > worked with no
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > > problems! Thanks!
  > >   >   > >
  > >   >   > > But shouldn't this be happining automatically when the
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > maximal mount count is
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > > reached?
  > >   >   > >
  > >   >   > > Ralph
  > >   >   > >
  > >   >   > > > Ralph,
  > >   >   > > >
  > >   >   > > > Boot your Lunar box with any version of the Lunar
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > Install/Rescue ISO.
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > > > e2fsck is of course included on the ISO.
  > >   >   > > >
  > >   >   > > > After the ISO is booted, get to the point in the
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > install process before
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > > > you have to mount partitions and just use the menu
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > option to drop to
  > >   >   >
  > >   >   > > > a shell prompt.  From there you can run 
  > "e2fsck /dev/dha2".
  > >   >   > > >
  > >   >   > > > Terry Chan
  > >   >   >
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