Mark C. Allman wrote:
System: 2.6.22.9-91.fc7, Dell XPS M1710 laptop, 80GB HD, 2G ram
From what I've read, it's a good idea to occasionally have fsck run when
you reboot a system. Also, I've had Fedora lock up a few times (over the past year, BTW, so I'm not complaining!) such that I had to power off and back on to restart.
What I do to have fsck run on startup:
- Create /fsckoptions with the switches I want to supply to fsck
- Run "shutdown -rF 0' to create /forcefsck and reboot.
Note: When fsck is finished after the reboot the /fsckoptions and /forcefsck files are removed automatically.
tune2fs -c 21 /dev/xxx
This is what I have on my laptop, it is set to fsck after 21 mounts (I think 21 is pretty typical setup for a lot of distros like Ubuntu (or gentoo in my case) change the 21 to suit your needs that should eliminate the need for the setup you have.