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vagif

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Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 37

How to automatically fsck on reboot after crash ?

On my 32 bit Arch linux, whenever my laptop crashed, it automatically fsck harddrives. It was like that rom beginning, i do not remember setting up anything for it.
After i installed 64 bit Arch, it stopped doing that. Now i have to wait untill it unsuccesfully tries to run X and gnome, then login, manually fsck and reboot.

So my question is, How to make Arch automatically fsck on reboot after crash ?

ssl6

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From: Ottawa, ON, CA

Registered: 2007-08-30

Posts: 594

Re: How to automatically fsck on reboot after crash ?

not sure if it helps, im not the most knowledgable here, but theres something about that in teh fstab article here http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fstab

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vagif

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Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 37

Re: How to automatically fsck on reboot after crash ?

ssl6: That was it! Thanks. For some reason my fstab file was broken.

nuttygamergeek

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Registered: 2008-11-24

Posts: 15

Re: How to automatically fsck on reboot after crash ?

After a bad crash I boot to a Ubuntu Live CD (very handy ) and manually force a check of every partition.  At boot the journal for my XFS is played back silently but never checked.  I probably don't need to manually check but I like to make sure and I don't have a crash that often!

venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: How to automatically fsck on reboot after crash ?

but would it automatically fsck after a crash? I dont see any such setting in FSTAB

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klixon

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From: Nederland

Registered: 2007-01-17

Posts: 525

Re: How to automatically fsck on reboot after crash ?

it's the last column in fstab. You can specify at what round of fsck'ing the fs get checked.

root /dev/sda3 ext3 defaults,noatime 0 1 # gets checked first
boot /dev/sda1 ext2 defaults,noatime 0 2 # get checked after round one (in this case only root) finishes
home /dev/sda4 ext3 defaults,noatime 0 2 # runs at the same time as the boot-partition check

swap none swap defaults 0 0 # this one doesn't get a check

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