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<refentry id="systemd-fsck@.service">
<refentryinfo>
<title>systemd-fsck@.service</title>
<productname>systemd</productname>
-
- <authorgroup>
- <author>
- <contrib>Developer</contrib>
- <firstname>Lennart</firstname>
- <surname>Poettering</surname>
- <email>lennart@poettering.net</email>
- </author>
- </authorgroup>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
responsible for file system checks. They are instantiated for each
device that is configured for file system checking.
<filename>systemd-fsck-root.service</filename> is responsible for
- file system checks on the root file system, but in only if the
- root filesystem wasn't checked in the initramfs.
+ file system checks on the root file system, but only if the
+ root filesystem was not checked in the initramfs.
<filename>systemd-fsck@.service</filename> is used for all other
file systems and for the root file system in the initramfs.</para>
- <para>Those services are started at boot if
+ <para>These services are started at boot if
<option>passno</option> in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> for the
file system is set to a value greater than zero. The file system
check for root is performed before the other file systems. Other
- file systems may be checked in parallel, except when they are one
+ file systems may be checked in parallel, except when they are on
the same rotating disk.</para>
<para><filename>systemd-fsck</filename> does not know any details
about specific filesystems, and simply executes file system
checkers specific to each filesystem type
- (<filename>/sbin/fsck.*</filename>). This helper will decide if
+ (<filename>/sbin/fsck.*</filename>). These checkers will decide if
the filesystem should actually be checked based on the time since
last check, number of mounts, unclean unmount, etc.</para>
<refsect1>
<title>Kernel Command Line</title>
- <para><filename>systemd-fsck</filename> understands one kernel
- command line parameter:</para>
+ <para><filename>systemd-fsck</filename> understands these kernel
+ command line parameters:</para>
<variablelist class='kernel-commandline-options'>
<varlistentry>
<listitem><para>One of <literal>preen</literal>,
<literal>yes</literal>, <literal>no</literal>. Controls the
- mode of operation. The default is <literal> preen</literal>,
+ mode of operation. The default is <literal>preen</literal>,
and will automatically repair problems that can be safely
- fixed. <literal>yes </literal> will answer yes to all
+ fixed. <literal>yes</literal> will answer yes to all
questions by fsck and <literal>no</literal> will answer no to
all questions. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry>