Hey all ! you Know that sinking feeling you get when you fire up your rig and it gets so far and hangs,
![Mad :x](./images/smilies/icon_mad.gif)
only to find that fsck is being forced !!
![Rolling Eyes :roll:](./images/smilies/icon_rolleyes.gif)
Well here is a way to check and see how many boots till next forced fsck
Install showfsck in Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install showfsck
This will complete the installation
Using showfsck
If you want to see the number of reboots before next forced fsck using the following command
sudo showfsck
output looks similar to the following
15/30 mount(s) until fsck for /dev/disk/by-uuid/edadb298-aae6-4549-b5dc-55c6184fdbc4
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