Tim Nelson wrote at 2013-07-25 09:28 -0500: > On occasion, we find that a filesystem error is bad enough that > instead of auto{matically|magically} fixing the issue and continuing > to boot, the system hangs, needing a root password entered for a > manual fsck to be run. > > My question is thus: How do I prevent that requirement to login and > run fsck manually? Is there some parameter that can be set? Or, am I > going about this the completely wrong way?
You mentioned the FSCKFIX option; according to rcS(5) man page, setting it to "yes" in /etc/default/rcS will do what you want. This causes fsck to be run with -y instead of -p which is somewhat dangerous but hopefully will in your case successfully repair the filesystem.
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