Answer by Nino van Hooff for How to check root partition with fsck?
If you are on a Raspberry pi and you find yourself in emergency mode, you can in fact unmount the root partition and still use fsck (login as root) mount -o remount,ro / fsck reboot
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On my systems (several x86 notebooks and a Banana Pi Pro), saying sudo shutdown now brings me to runlevel 1 (aka maintenance mode) where I can safely check my root FS: mount -o remount,ro...
View ArticleAnswer by erik for How to check root partition with fsck?
On modern linux systems the answers above (with forcefsck) don’t work. You have to do it manually: Put your root partition into read-only mode by modifying the faulty partition’s line on /etc/fstab...
View ArticleAnswer by insider for How to check root partition with fsck?
You can use shutdown command for this too. shutdown -rF now From man: The -F flag means 'force fsck'. This only creates an advisory file /forcefsck which can be tested by the system when it comes up...
View ArticleAnswer by g24l for How to check root partition with fsck?
Here is another way to do this: tune2fs -C 2 -c 1 /dev/THEDEVTHATROOTIS reboot then the filesystem will be checked, and once all is good you should do tune2fs -c 60 /dev/THEDEVTHATROOTIS I have assumed...
View ArticleAnswer by psusi for How to check root partition with fsck?
sudo touch /forcefsck Then reboot.
View ArticleHow to check root partition with fsck?
I installed Linux Mint 12 KDE, and I would like to check the root partition for any errors. How do I check the root partition with fsck at boot time?
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