> I mount several other partitions automatically via fstab, and on those I will > after foo number of mounts get a warning that the drive should be > checked. However, it's a pain to switch to runlevel 1 and manually > check all those partitions. > > Why should I have to? Why can't the same process (init?) that > autochecks the root partition, just automatically check the others > instead of warning me? Does your /etc/fstab entry for those filesystems have the fsck-pass entry defined? For example, in my /etc/fstab file I have: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #/dev/sda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/sda3 none swap sw 0 0 proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 /dev/sda5 /usr ext2 rw 1 2 /dev/sda6 /tmp ext2 rw 1 2 /dev/sda7 /export/home/fuzzy ext2 rw 1 2 Notice that my last 3 filesystems are marked "pass 2" meaning that they will get checked second, i.e. after the root filesystem. From what I recall, those filesystems always get checked automatically for me. Make sure you don't have a zero "0" in the "pass" column of your filesystem(s). Swap and proc never get checked for obvious reasons.