How to force fsck on boot?

Bill Marcum bmarcum at iglou.com
Thu Dec 8 09:41:51 UTC 2005


On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 14:45:58 -0800, Peter Stoddard 
  <peter at stoddard.us> wrote:
> root at daphne:/etc# find / -name smb.conf
> /etc/samba/smb.conf
> /var/cache/setup-tool-backends/backup/network/First/etc/samba/smb.conf
> /var/cache/setup-tool-backends/backup/network/1/etc/samba/smb.conf
> /var/cache/setup-tool-backends/backup/network/2/etc/samba/smb.conf
> /var/cache/setup-tool-backends/backup/shares/First/etc/samba/smb.conf
> /usr/share/samba/smb.conf
> find: WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for /proc: this may be a bug in
> your filesystem driver.  Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option.
> Earlier results may have failed to include directories that should have
> been searched.
> root at daphne:/etc#
>
> I wanted to do an fsck to see if it would clear up that error message.
> It didn't.
>
The contents of /proc are not on your hard drive, it's a virtual file 
system, so fsck has no effect and is not needed.  You can ignore the 
warnings or use find commands that exclude /proc.

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