Tunefs / Forcing fsck

Adam Conrad adconrad at 0c3.net
Mon Mar 6 08:06:00 UTC 2006


Tim T. wrote:
>
>  When I run fsck, it reports the partition is clean and immediately returns.
> I think I need to use tunefs to reset the clean flag, but
> I can't find it anywhere on my system.. Where is it ?

(base)adconrad at cthulhu:~$ man fsck.ext3 | grep Force
Reformatting fsck.ext3(8), please wait...
       -f     Force checking even if the file system seems clean.

... Adam





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