message at start: check root file system

rosika
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message at start: check root file system Apr 13, 2021 12:27:59 GMT

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Post by rosika on Apr 13, 2021 12:27:59 GMT

Hi altogether,

I´m asking this question on behalf of a friend of mine who is using BodhiLinux.

Apparently something has changed lately (she noticed it after the latest update) when booting her system.

She had changed her grub file to

"GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="noplymouth"

when installing her system; so she sees the messages at boot.

And it´s here that something new was to be seen:

There´s a message "check root file system", and a (fsck?) check seems to be under way which takes a few seconds. After that the system boots normally.

According to her this behaviour is new and occurs every time when (re-)booting.

Can you tell my anything about that phenomenon?

Alas that´s all I can tell you. Beside the dmesg log-file (in case it helps) which she sent my by e-mail.

Thanks a lot in avance.

Many greetings.
Rosika

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message at start: check root file system Apr 13, 2021 15:34:13 GMT

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Post by enigma9o7 on Apr 13, 2021 15:34:13 GMT

Apr 13, 2021 12:27:59 GMT rosika said:

There´s a message "check root file system", and a (fsck?) check seems to be under way which takes a few seconds. After that the system boots normally.

According to her this behaviour is new and occurs every time when (re-)booting.

Can you tell my anything about that phenomenon?

I'm curious too. I have splash and plymouth all that still enabled, but there is always that one message I see between grub and when bodh's graphic comes up, telling me my /dev/sda1 is how many bytes and checked or something.

My guess was that was related to some check of the file system before booting.

Last Edit: Apr 13, 2021 15:34:37 GMT by enigma9o7

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rosika
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message at start: check root file system Apr 13, 2021 15:56:56 GMT

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Post by rosika on Apr 13, 2021 15:56:56 GMT

Hi enigma9o7,

thanks a lot for your reply.

[...]telling me my /dev/sda1 is how many bytes and checked or something.

Yes, that´s what my friend told me as well.

My guess was that was related to some check of the file system before booting.

I understand. But that behaviour wasn´t perceivable before yesterday when she first noticed it.

So something must have changed during the lastet update. That´s a guess of course but perhaps there´s something else that could´ve triggered it?

Surely it´s not necessary to perform a file system check each and every time the system (re-)boots.

I wonder if there´s anything we can do about it?

Many greetings

Rosika

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message at start: check root file system Apr 13, 2021 16:21:24 GMT via mobile

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Post by Hippytaff on Apr 13, 2021 16:21:24 GMT

I always have some kind of message or kernel thing. I think that’s normal, unless things stop working. Then it’s broke. I remember reading somewhere years ago that it’s something to do with the kernel dumping messages or some such thing I’ll never remember without reading up on it again. Ylee might know what I’m on about.

But if nothing seems to be broken, then it’s probably not.

Last Edit: Apr 13, 2021 16:23:53 GMT by Hippytaff

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message at start: check root file system Apr 13, 2021 16:29:27 GMT

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Post by rosika on Apr 13, 2021 16:29:27 GMT

Hi Hippytaff,

thanks for sharing your views on the matter.

I think that’s normal, unless things stop working.

I see. Well, that seems to be a bit comforting.

The system starts alright - after perforimg the root file system check. My friend was just wondering why that message didn´t pop up before...

So thanks a lot for your help.

Many greetings.

Rosika