How to force Feisty filesystem check on boot?

[galt]

Sorry, that didn't work either.

The disc usage analyzer hangs the system for me, and I am trying to 
diagnose the problem.

Thanks

Nils Kassube wrote:
> galt wrote:
>   
>> Sorry that did not work for me.
>>     
>
> OK, sorry about the untested advice.
>
> Actually I only checked the shutdown man page on my Dapper machine because 
> I didn't remember which option was necessary. I didn't expect Feisty to 
> be different. Now that you pointed it out, I tested it on my Feisty 
> machine and you are right. The Feisty shutdown command doesn't know 
> the -F flag :(
>
> However, the shutdown man page for Dapper has this paragraph about the -F 
> flag:
>
> | The -F flag means `force fsck'. This only creates an advisory
> | file /forcefsck which can be tested by the system when it comes up
> | again. The boot rc file can test if this file is present, and decide to
> | run fsck(1) with a special `force' flag so that even properly unmounted
> | filesystems get checked. After that, the boot process should
> | remove /forcefsck.      
>
> Now I used this command:
>
> sudo touch /forcefsck
>
> and after the reboot the partitions were checked.
>
>
> Nils
>
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