The old method of creating a file with “touch \/forcefsck” should still work on modern systems even though it is a hangover from the old sysvinit days, however it obviously relies on the root partition being mountable in order to read that flag.<\/p>\n
I have found a new method mentioned on lists.fedoraproject.org which I can confirm works perfectly on Fedora(30).<\/p>\n
At the grub boot menu, use “e” to edit the boot entry to be used, and at the end of the boot parameter line add fsck.mode=force<\/em> , this will fsck all the filesystems which is useful if the root partition was not mountable at boot time.<\/p>\n Posted here for my later reference as it is the sort of thing I will need again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The old method of creating a file with “touch \/forcefsck” should still work on modern systems even though it is a hangover from the old sysvinit days, however it obviously relies on the root partition being mountable in order to … Continue reading