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On Thu, 27 Mar 2008, Steven wrote:

I wrote
> > I found an older post by Steven that describes a way 
> > to get e2fsck to check the hard drive not on every single 
> > boot, but only when the drive was umounted uncleanly. See 
> > https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2007-February/012915.html 
> >
> > I just want to check whether the resolution to the problem 
> > of e2fsck running on every boot as given in that somewhat 
> > dated post is still valid. 
>
> Yes, that is still the method I use.  It works well.

This method doesn't seem to be working for me if I understand it 
correctly. As I get it, a file called check-fs should be created every 
time I boot BL and it should be placed in the /etc directory. However, I 
see no such file there. Here are the first few lines of my /etc/rc file:

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#!/bin/sh
[ -e /etc/check-fs ] && 
touch /etc/check-fs
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after which I've included the line recently given:

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let c=`cat /tmp/c`+1;echo $c>/tmp/c;[ $c = 20 ]&&echo 0>/tmp/c&&e2fsck
---------------------------------------------------------------------

Have I gone about this right? Should I expect to find a file called 
check-fs in the /etc directory each time I boot?

Thanks,
James