How to force fsck on boot?

[Randall J. Parr]

Peter Stoddard wrote:

>Hi folks
>
>Re Breezy Badger 2.6.12-10-powerpc
>
>Can someone tell me how to either boot into single user mode or force an
>fsck (or e2fsck) on boot?
>
>Also, I have looked for he answer on Wiki and other places and can't
>seem to find it.  Where is this info?
>  
>

Creating file "forcefsck" in the root directory should cause an fsck to 
be run on next reboot.

# sudo touch /forcefsck

or

# sudo echo " " >/forcefsck

I know this works well on Red Hat.  I have not really tested it on Breezy.

R.Parr, RHCE, Temporal Arts