On Wed, 27 Jul 2016 09:46:02 +0100 (BST) John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Gabriele Pohl wrote: > > I now changed the value to 0 and rebooted. > > > > After that fsck based on Interval setting were done. > > > > Unfortunately that is not true for the root partition. > > For that I had to use maxCount settings to trigger fsck. > > I believe e2fsk happens both pre root mount, and post. You'll want to > rebuild your initramfs to make it take effect for the root volume I'd guess. agreed as I see the config is included there: # lsinitrd | grep e2fsck -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 112 Mar 5 2015 etc/e2fsck.conf -rwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Jun 25 06:56 usr/sbin/e2fsck I have to wait for the next maintenance downtime to verify. I will report the result then. Thanks again for your help :) Cheers, Gabriele