Schedule a disk check

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Wed Mar 17 23:48:57 UTC 2010


On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:12 PM,  <christopher.lemire at gmail.com> wrote:
> In windows, if I right click a drive, go to properties and tell it to do a
> disk check, it will tell me it can't disk check an active hard drive. Then
> it asks me if I'd like to schedule a disk check the next time Windows boots.
> How can I do the same with Ubuntu?

On current versions of Ubuntu
 sudo touch /forcefsck

Older versions and/or Redhat based systems have/had? an -F option in
the shutdown command.

Brian

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