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Message from Steven
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James wrote:
>
> 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:
> ------------------------
> #!/bin/sh
> [ -e /etc/check-fs ] && 
> touch /etc/check-fs
> ------------------------

I find it hard to believe that /etc/check-fs is not 
there.  Execute the following from the command line:
-------------------
touch /etc/check-fs
-------------------
Is it there now?  If it works now, why wouldn't it
work in /etc/rc?

Are those lines from your /etc/rc, EXACTLY as you
have given them?  If so, they are wrong.  Where is
the e2fsck part?

> after which I've included the line recently given:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> let c=`cat /tmp/c`+1;echo $c>/tmp/c;[ $c = 20 ]&&echo 0>/tmp/c&&e2fsck
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------

That line is also wrong.  Moreover, you shouldn't
even be trying that method until the earlier method
is working.

> Should I expect to find a file called check-fs in 
> the /etc directory each time I boot?

Yes.  Until you find out why it is not there, you 
shouldn't be thinking about this other stuff.
When you asked about the counting method, I assumed
you had already got the "dirty shutdown" method
working.  

Silly me.