On 14/01/2018 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:16:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On 13/01/2018 23:16, Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:57:59 -0600, John Johnson wrote: >>> >>>> Shouldn't that be taken care of by the "/etc/fstab" entries? >>> >>> Those say whether the filesystem should be checked, not when. >>> >>>> Obviously, if "/usr" is on a separate partition, it needs to be >>>> mounted at the time when "/usr/sbin/fsck" is expected to be >>>> present. >>> >>> fsck is in /sbin, but that's not the point. If you have an initramfs, >>> fsck should be in it and run before /usr is mounted rw, which means it >>> has to be done by the initramfs. It's too late to do it when control >>> has been handed over because then /usr is already mounted rw. >> >> >> So what does the dirty check and fsck of / ? > > OpenRC AFAIK. > >> I don't have an initramfs, I don't have a separate /usr, > > You need an initramfs and a separate /usr to experience this problem. You > have neither so you have avoided it twice, well done :-)
I'm an engineer, so I don't add unneeded things that serve no purpose and no benefit :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
