fsck -f -n should work
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fsck -f -n should work with jfs. This means "force check and answer no to everything". jfs presently interprets -n as "don't change any data".
This is needed as e2fs fsck requires the -n option when running without terminal, like say in a boot script.
See Gentoo bug #116016 for why.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116016
Allow -f to work with -n
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This should be easy to fix. jfs_fsck -f -n should behave just like jfs_fsck -n. jfs_fsck is not interactive, so doesn't ask the y/n questions. answering n to everything is basically "don't change any data".
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Fixed in jfsutils-1.1.12