Re: [Jfs-discussion] fsck.jfs problem

[Dave K. <sh...@au...>]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 23:47 +0000, Tim Blechmann wrote:
> oh, btw, is it possible to mark a jfs partition as dirty, so that it
> will be checked before the next mount? i'm using it as root partition
> and i don't always want to boot from live-cd when checking the root
> partition ...

Well, "shutdown -F" forces an fsck on all file systems, which may be
more overhead than you want.

Running "jfs_debugfs /dev/<blockdevice>" (which will give you a prompt),
and than the commands:
sup
m 12 2
x

should do what you want.
> 
> thanks ... tim
> 
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David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center