Improper shutdown... do I need to fsck?

CaptainCaveman · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 23

Okay, earlier today I had an "improper shutdown" (also known as hitting the button on the power strip).

Every other distro I've tried, in this situation, would upon reboot inform me that '[drive] was not cleanly unmounted, check forced' or something like that.

When I rebooted this time, it came back and told me '[drive] clean.'

Now, do I need to run fsck or can I trust that this is ok? (I'm using ext3 filesystem.)

Nitro · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 12:14 am Post subject:

Ext3 is a journaling filesystem and upon reboot recovered its journal so, all and all its fine probably fine. Running a fsck wouldn't hurt if you had time to burn, but I'd doubt it would find anything bad.
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Target · Apprentice Joined: 25 Apr 2002 Posts: 200

If you're using ext3, it did a quick consistency check using the journal and then went on to mount the now-clean drive. It will even say so a bit before actually mounting the drive.

ext2 does the same thing, including declaring the drive clean after the check and then mounting it.

The consistency check is just really fast when all you need to do is a journal playback.

CaptainCaveman · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 23

Ahhhhhhhhhh... it was the quickness that threw me, I'm used to waiting for fsck to do the whole

Nitro · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:36 am Post subject:

Did it say that it was fixing anything? Or did the bar just go straight across without saying anything else?
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CaptainCaveman · n00b Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 23

I didn't get a bar for this, it just came up and said 'Fsck (something) drive clean.'

Nitro · Posted: Tue Apr 30, 2002 1:56 am Post subject:

If it didn't complain to you that "inode blah blah is supposed to be blah blah blah, fixing," then nothing was lost/corrupted. It has been so long since I've seen the fsck error messages that I can't even remember what they say; I suppose that's a good thing huh?
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mvc · Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2002 12:49 am Post subject:

hi,

I have made a similar 'forced' shutdown but then, every time the system reboots, it tells that the filesystem has errors, but doesn't run fsck. So I did

shutdown -F

(for forcing a fsck next time the system reboots) and so it did, but the message is still there every time i reboot.

Does gentoo have a sort of 'interactive' mode to startup, like redhat does? I would like to run fsck on my root partition but I don't know how can I get to a state where I can unmount it.

thanks
mvc