Dev1 Galaxy Forum / [SOLVED] File system check on efi system partition

Re: [SOLVED] File system check on efi system partition

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Tue, 01 Nov 2022 20:26:35 +0000

Checked my installations: except for on my laptop the dosfstools is present.

Re: [SOLVED] File system check on efi system partition

dummy@example.com (Head_on_a_Stick) — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:49:22 +0000

rolfie wrote:

is the instalölation of the dosfstools package mandatory to make the fsck during boot work?

Yes.

I prefer to use autofs with the ESP so that it remains un-mounted until needed but I'm not sure if that's possible without systemd.

$ findmnt /efi
TARGET SOURCE    FSTYPE OPTIONS
/efi   systemd-1 autofs rw,relatime,fd=48,pgrp=1,timeout=120,minproto=5,maxproto=5,direct,pipe_ino=24599
$

EDIT: with the autofs package, that's how; it has a sysvinit script.

[SOLVED] File system check on efi system partition

dummy@example.com (rolfie) — Sun, 30 Oct 2022 20:27:37 +0000

On my laptop I just saw in the boot messages that the efi system partition wasn't ok (volume not properly unmounted ...). This is a vfat partition mounted at /boot/EFI, and according to the fstab entry a fsck should be done during each boot. I am wondering why this did not work.

Well, unmounted the partition and tried to run fsck.vfat against this partition. To my astonishment the command wasn't found. After some research with the duck I installed the dosfstools package, then the check worked. I had to clear the dirty bit.

Comprehension question: is the installation of the dosfstools package mandatory to make the fsck during boot work?

Thanks, rolfie