force recheck on reboot – fsck
If you want to force a fsck re-check on reboot, then just
touch /forcefsck
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Set some disk params to be safe
It is always “Better safe than sorry” so, here are some things you
should do..
First check fstab, if you have partitions other than root then use UUID instead of device:
UUID=a8f13a0d-3f1f-42e4-b076-f44b4163306c /mnt/Backup ext4 defaults,relatime 1 2
Then entries for all your mounts should be like above.
Points to note here :
Disk is mounted using the UUID and not with /dev/sdXX. This ensures
that even if your disk ids change, you will be able to mount them. To
get the partition UUID, you can execute :