fsck(8) has not been successfully run on my computer for several years.

@0x6e6174 what did you do-

@0x6e6174 every time i think to run it i get yelled at that i can’t do it on a mounted and actively used partition so i tell myself i’ll reboot into a live image and then i just forget to do it

@9pfs well you see my /etc/fstab contains an incorrect uuid for the root partition. that doesn't matter though because my fstab doesn't really do anything other than mount /home. / gets mounted by the kernel

@0x6e6174 woah
would it fsck successfully if you tried

@9pfs if I got rid of the bogus uuid and unmounted everything it would probably work

@0x6e6174 wouldn't you need an initrd to succeed

@puppygirlhornypost2 consider: copy / to ram and then unmount the root partition

@0x6e6174 consider: i don’t have a separate /home partition nor do i have 2tb of ram available to me

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@puppygirlhornypost2 o right I forget some people don't have separate root partitions

@0x6e6174 i really should fix this. i use luks+lvm and manually partition it (because i use both gentoo and fedora which have no sort of automatic installer for that). it’s not like it’s unheard of for me, especially because i also do EFI & swap partitions manually

@puppygirlhornypost2 having a separate home partition is very nice. this home partition has been with me 7 years.

@0x6e6174 nothing is stopping me from shrinking my root partition using lvm and then making another one for /home except my sheer laziness and inability to remember this conversation 5 minutes from now

@9pfs no, I could just unmount /

@0x6e6174 isn't that going to break your system and take away fsck.whatever

@0x6e6174 @9pfs it gets mounted rw by the kernel? interesting

@9pfs plausibly I could make the init system copy / to ram, chroot in to the root in ram, unmount and fsck the root partition on disk from there, and then remount that partition

woah

@ada @9pfs well I tell my kernel to mount it as rw

@0x6e6174 @9pfs yes I meant for that to be implied

@ada @9pfs

~ λ cat /proc/cmdline         
root=PARTUUID=cd085442-fcf1-f74d-bb3d-eadb3c9c84a3 rw

@9pfs I don't really care to do that, though; fsck isn't remotely necessary

@0x6e6174 woah why not?

@9pfs I have never had any issues with corruption of files, even though all my partitions are ext4.

@9pfs even with a computer that randomly fucking freezes sometimes

@0x6e6174 well that is extremely worrying

@ireneista not really

@0x6e6174 fair enough