Where is the script that does the automatic e2fsck's located?

[Paul Howarth]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 17 March 2005 10:30, Paul Howarth wrote:
> 
>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>
>>>Ahh, I see, and I have such a file now.  It will now be quite a
>>>few reboots before I see if that helped though, about 20 to go I
>>>believe. OTOH, I could use those up in a day or so as I'm tyring
>>>to troubleshoot why the 2.6.11.2 patch, a simple little 2 liner,
>>>should break tvtimes audio controls, but it does.  Totally
>>>disabling the volume control and makeing the resultant audio badly
>>>distorted and tinny as hell.
>>
>>You can add forcefsck as a parameter to the kernel boot line (e.g.
>>in grub) to force a filesystem check I think. Or create a file
>>/forcefsck
>>
>>The /fsckoptions and /forcefsck files will get erased at each reboot
>>btw.
>>
>>Paul.
> 
> 
> Oh Cute, and I don't mean that in the bowlegged sense. :(
> 
> Can I put that into rc.local as an echo statement so its restored on 
> every boot?  What perms does it need was another question?

Yes, rc.local should be fine.

The permissions shouldn't matter - rc.sysinit just reads the file, it 
doesn't try to execute it. I'd go for 0600 or 0644.

Paul.