As root you can run this # touch /forcefsck Then the next reboot should result in it running an fsck on the root partition as part of the boot. I have an option on my classroom machines, that has it boot with a kernel that runs in just ram, and it does an fsck of all of the regular linux partitions on the disk to confirm everything is error free. One could also boot from a live cd and run fsck since the partitions should not be mounted. On 5 Sep 2015 at 7:59, Ralf Corsepius wrote: Subject: Re: e2fsck after hard shutdown To: users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx From: Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> Date sent: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 07:59:50 +0200 Send reply to: Community support for Fedora users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > On 09/05/2015 07:31 AM, antonio montagnani wrote: > > > do you mean that I could run e2fsck from inside the root shell? > Yes. > > > I > > guessed that filesystems were already mounted and e2fsck doesn't work on > > mounted filesystems.... I have to study. :-) > > Depends, depends on what actually happened/gone wrong. > > In most such cases, the filesystems are mounted read-only or not mounted > at all. > > Ralf > > > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org +----------------------------------------------------------+ Michael D. Setzer II - Computer Science Instructor Guam Community College Computer Center mailto:mikes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx mailto:msetzerii@xxxxxxxxx http://www.guam.net/home/mikes Guam - Where America's Day Begins G4L Disk Imaging Project maintainer http://sourceforge.net/projects/g4l/ +----------------------------------------------------------+ http://setiathome.berkeley.edu (Original) Number of Seti Units Returned: 19,471 Processing time: 32 years, 290 days, 12 hours, 58 minutes (Total Hours: 287,489) BOINC@HOME CREDITS ROSETTA 33898211.543299 | SETI 61203875.206697 ABC 16613838.513356 | EINSTEIN 70320821.471095 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org