On Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:21:00 +0100 (BST) John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2016, Gabriele Pohl wrote: > > > on all of my CentOS7 VMs on different hypervisors > > the config file e2fsck.conf contains the line > > > > broken_system_clock = 1 > > > > Do you see similiar /default/ settings on > > your machines? Is it an issue only on VMs? > > I have no CentOS7 host on bare metal to compare. > > Same on real hardware. But you can check this yourself: > > $ rpm -qf /etc/e2fsck.conf > e2fsprogs-1.42.9-7.el7.x86_64 > $ rpm -V e2fsprogs > $ rpm -q e2fsprogs --scripts > $ thanks for the hint :) 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. fyi and cheers, Gabriele