[clug] Debian Jessie file system checking on boot up
Scott Ferguson
scott.ferguson.clug at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 12:04:14 UTC 2016
On 05/04/16 20:11, George at Clug wrote:
> Does anyone know how to get a Debian Jessie server to check and
> repair its root file system on boot up ?
>
<snipped>
This 'seems' to work, I'll do a little more testing on the weekend.
Test VM:-
Debian Jessie 32-bit fully-updated
single slice ext4 partition
Changes:-
*Enable full fsck on boot (unattended) - this is a *really* bad thing to
do, fsck isn't smart enough to look for orphaned system files in Lost&Found
sed -i "s/^#FSCKFIX=no$/FSCKFIX=yes/" /etc/default/rcS
*Enable GRUB to show boot messages so I can "see" if fsck runs
sed -i
"s/^GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet\"$/GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"\"/"
/etc/default/grub
*Create a fsck logging rule which will 'hopefully' be used in the
initramfs[*1] Note that this doesn't appear to work :(
cat /etc/e2fsck.conf
[options]
max_count_problems = 16
log_dir = /var/log/e2fsck
log_filename = e2fsck-%N.%h.INFO.%D-%T
log_dir_wait = true
*Create a custom GRUB menu entry
cp /etc/grub.d/40_custom /etc/grub.d/39_fsck
copy a menu entry out of /boot/grub/grub.cfg and modify (change title
and append "fsck.mode=force" (without the "") to the kernel line)
e.g.
#!/bin/sh
exec tail -n +3 $0
<snipped>
menuentry 'force full fsck' --class debian --class gnu-linux --class gnu
--class os $menuentry_id_option
'gnulinux-simple-48eed742-c1cc-4652-81ef-220197a031a3' {
load_video
insmod gzio
if [ x$grub_platform = xxen ]; then insmod xzio; insmod lzopio; fi
insmod part_msdos
insmod ext2
set root='hd0,msdos1'
if [ x$feature_platform_search_hint = xy ]; then
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
--hint-ieee1275='ieee1275//disk at 0,msdos1' --hint-bios=hd0,msdos1
--hint-efi=hd0,msdos1 --hint-baremetal=ahci0,msdos1
48eed742-c1cc-4652-81ef-220197a031a3
else
search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set=root
48eed742-c1cc-4652-81ef-220197a031a3
fi
echo 'Loading Linux 3.16.0-4-586 ...'
linux /boot/vmlinuz-3.16.0-4-586
root=UUID=48eed742-c1cc-4652-81ef-220197a031a3 ro fsck.mode=force
echo 'Loading initial ramdisk ...'
initrd /boot/initrd.img-3.16.0-4-586
}
Lastly - run the update-grub command.
On reboot if I choose the force full fsck menu entry it appears to run
(there's only 900MB of files on the VM) ,but it does not log as I'd like.
See https://scottferguson.com.au/uploads/files/fsck_test.webm
Kind regards
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