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Re: fsck exits with error status, even though no errors are found

From: Rick Stevens <ricks_at_nospam>
Date: Mon Sep 26 2011 - 19:09:09 GMT
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>

On 09/26/2011 11:59 AM, JD wrote:
> kernel-2.6.35.14-96.fc14.i686
>
> During boot, when the time comes for fsck'ing
> the file systems, whatever script is doing that,
> is exiting with an error status, even though no
> errors are displayed, and I am prompted to either
> enter the root password, or type Contrl-D to continue.
> Cntrl-D simply reboots. Entering the root password,
> and running fsck manually to check all filesystems in fstab,
> yields that all is well, no errors are found, and the exit
> status is 0.
>
> Would appreciate some info on identifying the script that
> does the fsck during boot.

/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit is the guy and it'll force an fsck if it sees
a file called "/forcefsck" or "/.autofsck" in the root of the
filesystem or if there's a "forcefsck" on the command line of the kernel
(check your /etc/grub/grub.conf file).
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