touch /forcefsck [SOLVED]

[fehlix]

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sudo touch /forcefsck is redundant on debian.
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You found the answer to your question yourself. Well done.
Let me sum up what we've learned.

To manually start a complete filesystem-check on MX Linux at boot time,
you can use one of the following kernel boot parameters.

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forcefsck 

or

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fsck.mode=force

All partitons from /etc/fstab, where last field fs_passno is greater than 0, will be
undergo a complete filesystem check at next boot.

To have a regular full check carried out you could use this command
as :
sudo tune2fs -c60 -C61 -i30 device
where device = the device to be checked. e.g. /dev/sda1 ,
and with some example settings:
-c60 = max-mount-counts 60
-C61 = set the number of times the filesystem has been mounted.
61 > 60 : will check the filesystem at the next reboot
-i30 = interval-between-checks : 30 days
To disable automatic regualar full fs-check:
sudo tune2fs -c0 -i0 device

[turtlebay777]

This is what Linux is all about, discovering ways of using our chosen OS and solving problems through team work. MX is a great system and I thank the experts and users for their help in solving such issues. Certain other distros have specialists who seem to be a law unto themselves and if one disagrees with their pronouncements and set solutions you are ridiculed. Not so MX and Antix.
Thanks Fehlix and all.

[Be OK]

Wonder if that works for the EFI drive to ? lsblk give

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 sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk 
├─sda1   8:1    0   256M  0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2   8:2    0 929.2G  0 part /
└─sda3   8:3    0     2G  0 part [SWAP]
sdb      8:16   0   1.8T  0 disk 
└─sdb1   8:17   0   1.8T  0 part /media/jan/mobile-1
sr0     11:0    1  1024M  0 rom  

sda1 this case as its fat :)

[fehlix]

Wonder if that works for the EFI drive to ?

IMHO, neither vfat nor ntfs, will be checked.

EDIT: Correction: Just verified: forcefsck will also force vfat to be checked.
The log is available at /var/log/fsck/checkfs.