[Tfug] fsck question

[brandon]

On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:23 AM, <earljviolet at deserthowler.com> wrote:

> I have been letting fsck automatically run on my Ubuntu 9.10 install
> automatically with no problems.  Recently fsck showed some problems.
>
> I am trying to figure out how to force a run of fsck to correct these
> problems, or at least show what they are so I can fix them.  I looked in
> /etc with no luck in finding anything to do with fsck.  The man page
> doesn't give me any help on this.
>
> Earl
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Hi Earl-
Perhaps I am not fully understanding but you should be able to do a

shutdown -F now

This should create the necessary file to flag the force of a fsck on reboot.
Then if there are errors you should be able to take care of them at that
time.

Thanks
-Brandon
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