Hello,

I have some RH7.x systems w/ ext2 filesystems (that cannot be upgraded/changed) that I'd like to hookup to an APC remote power switch so I can reboot them from afar when they crash.

The issue at hand is the fsck. Upon reboot, they go into the fsck and often fail with this:

*** An error occurred during the file system check."
*** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot"
*** when you leave the shell."

This forces me into single user mode where I e2fsck everything. The question is how can I modify the startup scripts so that the fsck will complete automatically.

In rc.sysinit, can I change line 264 from:

initlog -c "fsck -T -a $fsckoptions /"

to:

initlog -c "e2fsck -y /"

Is this safe? I just want the fsck to fix all errors regardless and chug through so the box boots up normally. The -a option should do that I thought but doesn't.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

- Roger

I'm doing it with e2fsck -y -v <partition_name> . I think the -y option should be OK. I didn't have nasty problems with this, but now I understand the advantages of ext3fs, so I'm using it instead of ext2.