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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails
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On 13/01/2018 23:16, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 14:57:59 -0600, John Johnson wrote:
> 
>> Shouldn't that be taken care of by the "/etc/fstab" entries?
> 
> Those say whether the filesystem should be checked, not when.
> 
>> Obviously, if "/usr" is on a separate partition, it needs to be mounted
>> at the time when "/usr/sbin/fsck" is expected to be present.
> 
> fsck is in /sbin, but that's not the point. If you have an initramfs,
> fsck should be in it and run before /usr is mounted rw, which means it
> has to be done by the initramfs. It's too late to do it when control has
> been handed over because then /usr is already mounted rw.


So what does the dirty check and fsck of / ?

I don't have an initramfs, I don't have a separate /usr, I run OpenRC
and the kernel command line says where / is for mounting


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Alan McKinnon
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