How do I make sure all file systems are checked on boot?

jontoo

Hi,

I would appreciate if someone could answer this one for me.

I have checkfs in my boot runlevel. It doesn't do anything when it starts, and I don't know why.
When localmount starts, it complains that none of my file systems have been checked since 200+ mounts.
I could check them manually, but didn't find it a lot of fun, if you know what I mean.

It is a four years old gentoo installation, but there are no problems otherwise.

Thanks!
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BitJam · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 8:09 am Post subject:

For ext2 or ext3 filesystem you can use the tune2fs program. Other types of file systems have their own tools for this sort of thing. You also need to specify in fstab which file systems should be checked. From the fstab man page:

jontoo · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:58 pm Post subject:

Thanks, BitJam! That's clear information !

For the record:
If you want to check a file system at boot-up, put a non-zero value in the sixth field its fstab-entry.
The entry is a kind of weight number used to resolve the checking order.

It seems this is more some kind of a general Un*x-mechanism and not a gentoo-specific thing.
I am sorry if I should have asked the question elsewhere, but my error seeking only came as far as the localmount script which is a gentoo component.
I am also sorry that I missed this informatio before, probably caused me a lot of data harm through the years...