Schedule a disk check

[Christopher Lemire]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Brian McKee <brian.mckee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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sudo touch /forcefsck

I can't anything like that command you suggested in the man page. It seems like to me that would just create a file in the root directory.

Christopher Lemire <christopher.lemire at gmail.com>
Ubuntu 64 bit Linux Raid Level 0
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