Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 462862
shutdown has no -F or -f flags to force/skip fsck on reboot
Last modified: 2014-06-18 04:46:26 EDT
Description of problem: shutdown (from upstart) no longer supports the -F and -f flags to force or skip an fsck run after reboot. The presence of /forcefsck is still tested though. Therefore, a workaround for shutdown -F -r now would be: touch /forcefsck; shutdown -r now Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): upstart-0.3.9-19 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. shutdown -F -r now Actual results: no fsck is performed after the reboot Expected results: an fsck run should be performed after reboot Additional info:
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Same problem in Fedora 10 and Fedora 11
Just curious if this was an intentional change from the old Fedora/Red Hat versions where #shutdown -rF now would force an fsck on reboot of all available file systems. This has become quite annoying any time I wanna check a file system manually, the only way I have found to be able to do so is to boot into the emergency rescue CD and fsck from that environment. Also I have used tune2fs to manually set a file system option policy to force an fsck after X amount of time or Y amount of mounts with consecutive mounts without an fsck having been performed. This is somewhat annoying...but if it was intentional because someone deemed ext3/4 so reliable that manual fscks when marked clean are superfluous...I'd just like to know and I can move on with my life.
Upstream is against having these flags in the shutdown tool. They will not be added, there, and I don't intend to carry a permanent patch or re-address this issue later when I remove it.
Good to know, thanks.