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Small tip - Reboot your system and force or avoid a disk scan/check

Date: 2009-01-05 00:00:00 -0400

There is a simple command that will make your Linux system to reboot, and inmediately after check the disks, useful trick.

Here is the command:

shutdown -Fr now

And if you on the other hand want to skip the fsck to work after reboot, you know that after some number of mounts the fsck is activated and a check disk is forced, and you may need to be sure this is not going to happen because you need your system to reboot fast, enter this command

shutdown -fr now

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