On 17/04/15 18:01, Mark Rogers wrote:
OK, so it looks like I've been missing a fairly major point: my boot drive (which is also my SD card) is sdb not sda.
fsck.ext3 -vnf /dev/sdb2 shows me loads of errors.
What can I do to force this partition to be checked (unattended) on reboot? "touch /forcefsck" hasn't done it (although /forcefsck has been removed after reboot).
Unattended is important, I won't have any access to it until it reboots and I can SSH into it.
Just a thought - did you create forcefsk in the the correct place? Try creating one in each "root" directory of each SD card, then rebooting.
Sucking eggs time: If you for example had the root partition \ on sda1, but then had the \home directory provided by partition sdb1. To fsck both sd cards, you'd create forcefsck using touch \forcefsck, and touch \home\forcefsc.
(At least I think that's what you'd do!)
HTH Steve