[WBEL-users] Disk check at boot

[Ron Yorston]

Mark Kelly <whitebox at wastedtimes.net> wrote:
>Rebooting my whitebox machine after a powercut, I got the message about 
>pressing Y to check disks. I did so, and all was well (phew).
>
>What I was wondering was what would have happened if I hadn't been there to 
>press the key - I'm thinking more of remote reboots etc.

You can configure how this check works by editing (creating if necessary)
the file /etc/sysconfig/autofsck.  You can change the sense of the test
so that it performs the check unless you press a key to skip it.  This
might be sensible for remote machines.

For details of this, and many other things you can configure through
files in /etc/sysconfig, see the documentation in

   /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt

Ron