disk check at boot up time

[Basil Chupin]

On 05/02/12 07:33, ray burke wrote:
> can anyone help?
>
> I have been told to insert "sudo touch /forcefsck" in a terminal
> window when log into
>   k10.10mm so as to force
> a disk check at next boot time of which I have done, but every time I
> boot up now is does
> the fsck, and I only want it to do it once, so what is the command to do this?
>
> ray

Why are you worried about it?

A quick fsck is done everytime you boot to make sure that there has been 
no corruption to your file sysem (assuming here that you have used ext3 
or ext4 when you installed). And there is a more comprehensive fsck done 
after every (?)20 boots of the system.

BC

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