On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:45 PM, Karol Babioch <karol@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm wondering whether it makes actually sense to include the fsck hook > into the initial ramdisk. With the "current" switch to systemd > filesystems get fsck'ed by default anyway, so it seems to be sort of > redundant. > > Is there something I'm missing here, or how do you handle this? > > Best regards, > Karol Babioch You really want to be able to fsck the root filesystem before you mount it, as doing it while it's mounted read-only has several caveats, e.g. it requires an immediate reboot if the fsck changed anything, to ensure consistency of FS state on disk and in memory.
