2 .\" Copyright 2006 by Theodore Ts'o. All Rights Reserved.
3 .\" This file may be copied under the terms of the GNU Public License.
5 .TH e2fsck.conf 5 "May 2006" "E2fsprogs version 1.39"
7 e2fsck.conf \- Configuration file for e2fsck
10 is the configuration file for
12 It controls the default parameters used by
14 when it is creating ext2 or ext3 filesystems.
18 file uses an INI-style format. Stanzas, or top-level sections, are
19 delimited by square braces: [ ]. Within each section, each line
20 defines a relation, which assigns tags to values, or to a subsection,
21 which contains further relations or subsections.
22 .\" Tags can be assigned multiple values
23 An example of the INI-style format used by this configuration file
38 subtag1 = subtag_value_a
40 subtag1 = subtag_value_b
42 subtag2 = subtag_value_c
52 Comments are delimited by a semicolon (';') or a hash ('#') character
53 at the beginning of the comment, and are terminated by the end of
56 Tags and values must be quoted using double quotes if they contain
57 spaces. Within a quoted string, the standard backslash interpretations
58 apply: "\en" (for the newline character),
59 "\et" (for the tab character), "\eb" (for the backspace character),
60 and "\e\e" (for the backslash character).
62 The following stanzas are used in the
64 file. They will be described in more detail in future sections of this
68 This stanza contains general configuration parameters for
72 This stanza allows the administrator to reconfigure how e2fsck handles
73 various filesystem inconsistencies.
74 .SH THE [options] STANZA
75 The following relations are defined in the
80 If this relation is set to a boolean value of true, then if the user
81 interrupts e2fsck using ^C, and the filesystem is not explicitly flagged
82 as containing errors, e2fsck will exit with an exit status of 0 instead
83 of 32. This setting defaults to false.
85 .I defer_check_on_battery
86 This boolean relation controls whether or not the interval between
87 filesystem checks (either based on time or number of mounts) should
88 be doubled if the system is running on battery. It defaults to
90 .SH THE [problems] STANZA
93 stanza names a problem code specified with a leading "0x" followed by
95 The value of the tag is a subsection where the relations in that
96 subsection override the default treatment of that particular problem
99 Note that inappropriate settings in this stanza may cause
101 to behave incorrectly, or even crash. Most system administrators should
102 not be making changes to this section without referring to source code.
104 Within each problem code's subsection, the following tags may be used:
107 This relation allows the message which is printed when this filesystem
108 inconsistency is detected to be overridden.
111 This boolean relation overrides the default behavior controlling
112 whether this filesystem problem should be automatically fixed when
114 is running in preen mode.
117 This boolean relation overrides the default behavior determining
118 whether or not the filesystem will be marked as inconsistent if the user
119 declines to fix the reported problem.
122 This boolean relation overrides whether the default answer for this
123 problem (or question) should be "no".
126 This boolean relation overrides the default behavior controlling
127 whether or not the description for this filesystem problem should
130 is running in preen mode.
133 This boolean relation overrides the default behavior controlling
134 whether or not the description for this filesystem problem should
141 The following recipe will prevent e2fsck from aborting during the boot
142 process when a filesystem contains orphaned files. (Of course, this is
143 not always a good idea, since critical files that are needed for the
144 security of the system could potentially end up in lost+found, and
145 starting the system without first having a system administrator check
146 things out may be dangerous.)
155 description = "@u @i %i. "
161 The configuration file for