When working remotely, I set a server to force an fsck at boot time with the command:
sudo touch /forcefsck
and rebooted.
After it restarted, I checked in /var/log/fsck for the results of the disk check.
Both checkfs and checkroot said:
Nothing has been logged yet
So where are the results saved?
Possibly you are affected by this bug: "Does not log fsck invocations in /var/log/fsck/".
Doug's comment on the bug suggests the following workaround (the formatting has been adjusted to this platform):
12.04 Force FIlesystem Check:
Tell system to force filesystem checks on startup for all filesystems in
/etc/fstabwith indications to do filesystem checks:
touch /forcefsck
Tell system to be more verbose at startup:
sudo sed -i "s/VERBOSE=no/VERBOSE=yes/" /etc/default/rcS
Then, after reboot, examine
/var/log/boot.log, the results of the filesystem check will be visible there.
If you also want the filesystem check to perform all repairs, make this change:
sudo sed -i "s/FSCKFIX=no/FSCKFIX=yes/" /etc/default/rcS
14.04 Force FIlesystem Check:
Tell system to force filesystem checks on startup for all filesystems in
/etc/fstabwith indications to do filesystem checks:
touch /forcefsck
Tell system to be more verbose at startup:
sudo sed -i "s/#VERBOSE=no/VERBOSE=yes/" /etc/default/rcS
Then, after reboot, examine
/var/log/upstart/mountall.log, the results of the filesystem check will be visible there.
If you also want the filesystem check to perform all repairs, make this change:
sudo sed -i "s/#FSCKFIX=no/FSCKFIX=yes/" /etc/default/rcS
