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[Laurent Bonnaud <L.Bonnaud@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> fsck in particularly is slowly undergoing big changes that will mean
you can do it on the fly, with no need to reboot, etc.

6 years later ext4 still does not support online fsck.

> so why support -F ?

Because with systemd it is even more cumbersome to force a fsck of the
root FS.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74139

Title:
  shutdown missing -F (force fsck) option

Status in Upstart:
  Won't Fix
Status in upstart package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: upstart

  Hello,

  The -F option of the /sbin/shutdown command is useful: it allows you
  to force the operating system to check all partitions (fsck) at the
  next reboot.

  In Ubuntu 6.10, this option has disappeared !

  The command "shutdown -rF now" reboots the system, but does not force
  the checking of the filesystems. Also, the -F option is no longer in
  the shutdown manpage.

  It appears the -F option was still there in Ubuntu 6.06.

  As an aside, since Ubuntu is supposed to be based on Debian GNU/Linux,
  shutdown does have the -F flag in both Debian 3.1 (sarge) and Debian
  4.0 (etch).

  So, where did -F go ?

  Package information from apt:
  Package: upstart
  Section: base
  Installed-Size: 300
  Maintainer: Scott James Remnant <scott@xxxxxxxxxx>
  Architecture: i386
  Version: 0.2.7-7
  Replaces: sysvinit

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