William T Wilson wrote: > > there some kernel parameter I can tweak so that I'll never have to > > intervene even if the FS is not unmounted cleanly? > > Check to make sure that e2fsck is being used with the -a or -p options in > the startup scripts. That will convert the check at boot from manual mode > to automatic mode, where it will repair minor filesystem aggravations > automatically. Major corruption will still need to be done manually.
Set FSCKFIX=yes in /etc/default/rcS and even major corruption will be handled automatically. -- see shy jo