Software updater no longer functional

[Tom H]

On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 3:03 PM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> sudo touch /forcefsck
>> sudo shutdown -r now
>>
>> Force a full filesystem check and repair then reboot
>
> This procedure is no longer working for 16.04. Instead append
>
> forcefsck
>
> to the kernel command line of the grub menu.

Adding "forcefsck" to the cmdline is an initramfs-tools specific variable.

The equivalent generic systemd variable is "fsck.mode=force".

Theres also "fsckfix" (initramfs-tools) and "fsck.repair=yes"
(systemd) to control the behavior of fsck.