Filesystems are never checked on boot

sakisds · 2012-05-30 15:02:38

Today I realised the regular filesystem checks that happen during the boot process are not working on my system. I checked with dumpe2fs, last time my root filesystem was checked was Sun "Feb 5 13:24:26 2012", that's 4 months back!
I have the fsck hook in my mkinitcpio config after "filesystems". The full array:

HOOKS="base udev autodetect sata filesystems fsck"

Any idea how to troubleshoot this?

DSpider · 2012-05-30 15:12:27

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fs … efinitions

<pass> - used by fsck to decide which order filesystems are to be checked. Possible entries are 0, 1 and 2. The root file system should have the highest priority 1 - all other file systems you want to have checked should have a 2. File systems with a value 0 will not be checked by the fsck utility.

And also:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fsck#fstab_options
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fs … _frequency

PS: Do you have a separate /usr partition by any chance?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mk … _partition

Last edited by DSpider (2012-05-30 15:15:20)

sakisds · 2012-05-30 15:35:40

My fstab is already like that, / has pass set to 1 and /home to 2.

devpts           				 /dev/pts                   devpts    defaults                                      0      0
shm              				 /dev/shm                   tmpfs     nodev,nosuid                                  0      0
UUID=35898c7b-d709-47d7-a704-587e4eabbeee	 / 			    ext4      defaults,noatime 			   	    0	   1
UUID=5a6a8009-a299-41d0-904a-da5f1de69a8c        /home                      ext4      defaults,user_xattr,noatime                   0      2
tmpfs            				 /tmp                       tmpfs     defaults,noatime,nodev,nosuid,mode=1777       0      0
tmpfs            				 /var/run                   tmpfs     defaults,noatime,nodev,nosuid,mode=1755       0      0

I changed the fsck frequency to 25 but it was already there anyway. I also changed the check interval to 15 days but the system still won't check my filesystems on boot.

I tried to check manually just in case, using 'shutdown -Fr now' like the wiki instructed but it skipped my root partition, only checking /home.

DSpider · 2012-05-30 16:04:33

Ok, which bootloader do you use?

For GRUB Legacy and Syslinux you have to use "ro" at the kernel or APPEND line. For example:

# (0) Arch Linux
title  Arch Linux
root   (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/sda3 ro
initrd /initramfs-linux.img

LABEL arch
        LINUX ../vmlinuz-linux
        APPEND root=/dev/sda2 ro
        INITRD ../initramfs-linux.img

For GRUB 2... I'm not sure if it's added automatically... I think you need to edit /etc/default/grub and add:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="ro quiet"

And then re-generate a grub.cfg:

# grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

sakisds · 2012-05-31 10:01:20

I am using grub legacy and "ro" is already there. I also tried booting without UUID (root=/dev/sda1) but without luck.

My kernel line:

kernel /boot/vmlinuz-linux root=/dev/disk/by-uuid/35898c7b-d709-47d7-a704-587e4eabbeee vga=842 fastboot ro init=/usr/sbin/e4rat-preload-lite 5

Terminator · 2012-05-31 12:30:04

Maybe it's the fastboot option in your menu.lst. Also, you can force a filecheck on the next reboot like this. I checked it and for me it works.

sakisds · 2012-06-01 10:05:24

Creating /forcefsck works, it checked both root and /home. This will work for now, maybe I should put it in a cron job.

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#1 2012-05-30 15:02:38

Filesystems are never checked on boot

#2 2012-05-30 15:12:27

Re: Filesystems are never checked on boot

#3 2012-05-30 15:35:40

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#4 2012-05-30 16:04:33

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#5 2012-05-31 10:01:20

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