Month: April 2010

How to force a fsck after reboot?

For various reasons you may want to force a check (fsck) of a filesystem you currently use (most likely the root / filesystem as you cannot umount it on-the-go). To achieve that do: (below is for the / mount) # touch /forcefsck and after the reboot you’ll see that the fsck is being done.

linux

Fedora 12 / boot / initrd / initramfs

I have been using Fedora 12 (under HVM – Oracle VM 2.2) to build latest kernels from git (kernel.org), identify bugs, bisect, build and test. On Xen HVM Fedora 12 is quite slow (a full kernel build takes 3.5 hrs). I have noticed that initrd / mkinitrd does not have a future as Fedora 12…

kernel