[CentOS] fsck

Fri Jan 27 17:19:17 UTC 2012
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote:
> On 01/25/2012 10:46 AM, Steve Clark wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We are running units in the field that are headless. Sometimes we get units returned
>> that we when we boot them up have some type of filesystem inconsistency that the default preen
>> doesn't fix but running fsck -y does.
>>
>> I want to eliminate the -p (preen option) and always do the -y option anyone know where
>> to make this change?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
> You can create a file called:
>
> /etc/sysconfig/autofsck
>
> inside there you need the following lines:
>
> AUTOFSCK_DEF_CHECK=yes
> AUTOFSCK_OPT="-y"
>
> That should take away all options except "-f" and use the ones you put
> in AUTOFSCK_OPT.

Thanks!  Is that something we should have found in the documentation?
 I've always wondered why it wasn't the default.  It is always painful
when headless/remote machines fail to boot because of this, and the
odds of anyone knowing more than fsck does about repairing a file
system are essentially zero.

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   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com