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

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Thu Mar 17 15:04:26 UTC 2005


On Thursday 17 March 2005 06:33, Paul Howarth wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Thursday 17 March 2005 06:03, Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>Greetings, the subject says it all.
>>>>
>>>>When the number of boots has excceded the set value for a
>>>>partition, and this forces an e2fsck run, it works fine for
>>>>/dev/hda based partitions, but runs totally silent for /dev/hdd
>>>>based partitions.
>>>>
>>>>I'd like to see if I can fix that so I don't think the machine is
>>>>locked while its doing that and all screen output ceases for the
>>>>5+ minutes it takes to check a 180GB partition.
>>>
>>>It's /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>>>
>>>e2fsck decides for itself if it needs to do the check; that's not
>>>done by the script.
>>>
>>>Paul.
>>
>> No wonder I couldn't find it Paul.  You can grep for e2fsck in
>> rc.sysinit, and never come up with the actual command line that
>> does that.  Is e2fsck itself a binary or a script that could be
>> easily fixed?
>
>e2fsck is a binary, and it's called from fsck for ext2/3
> filesystems.
>
>Which filesystems do you have on /dev/hdd ?
>
>Does putting:
>
>-V
>
>in /fsckoptions help?
>
>Paul.

I don't seem to have a file by that name, Paul.  ??

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