Running a filesystem check on a VMware root partition

You can run a filesystem check on the appliance root filesystem at boot time.

About this task

If the appliance root filesystem is mounted read-only because it is corrupt, use the following steps to run fsck on root partition:

Procedure

  1. Access to the VMware console for the Appliance, and after causing it to reboot, make sure to bring up a console to the appliance (as needed to give focus to the window by clicking the mouse into it), and press the Esc key repeatedly.
    You will see a boot screen similar to the following: 
    GNU GRUB v2.02
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- Ubuntu
- Advanced options for Ubuntu
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Press Enter to boot the selected OS, 'e' to edit the commands 
before booting or 'c' for a command-line
  2. Press e to edit the commands before booting, and add the lines fsck.mode=force and fsck.repair=yes.
    For example, the boot screen contents resemble:
    GNU GRUB v2.02
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set params 'Ubuntu'
    fsck.mode=force
    fsck.repair=yes
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Press Ctrl-x or F10 to boot
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  3. Press F10 to boot.
  4. The following command should show that fsck was run recently: 
    root@ip-230:~# sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sda1 | grep "Last checked"
Last checked:             Wed Jul  1 19:32:25 2020