In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mike Touloumtzis  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>2) If you're wondering whether or not fsck will be run at boot time:
>   most Linux/Unix installations, including Debian, test for the
>   presence of a /forcefsck file in the rc scripts at boot time.  If
>   this file exists, all filesystems in /etc/fstab are fsck'ed.  So:
>       # touch /forcefsck
>       # shutdown -r now
>   Check out /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh for more details.

The -F flag to shutdown creates the /forcefsck file automatically,
so shutdown -rF does the same. See the shutdown manpage.

Mike.
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