Re: [gentoo-user] fsck check of /usr on a separate partition fails during boot

[Alan McKinnon]

On 14/01/2018 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2018 23:16:19 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>> 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 / ?
>
> OpenRC AFAIK.
>
>> I don't have an initramfs, I don't have a separate /usr,
>
> You need an initramfs and a separate /usr to experience this problem. You
> have neither so you have avoided it twice, well done :-)

I'm an engineer, so I don't add unneeded things that serve no purpose
and no benefit :-)



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