FSCK instructions for Rasperry Pi
16/09/14 17:00 Filed in: Systems Administation
It is trivially easy to shut your Pi down incorrectly and it still seems that this has not been addressed well in the Raspberian repository. Here is a summary of http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=64843 which describes how to fix the dreaded:
problem
FAT-fs (mmcblk0p1): Volume was not properly unmounted. Some data may be corrupt. Please run fsck.
problem
Unfortunately the stock dosfstools does not seem to fix the problem so you need to build a replacement:
You can install these tools over the existing tools or use them where they are. Here is an example of the latter
Select option (1) to “Remove dirty bit”
git clone http://daniel-baumann.ch/git/software/dosfstools.git
cd dosfstools
make
You can install these tools over the existing tools or use them where they are. Here is an example of the latter
sudo bash
cd dosfstools
umount /boot
./fsck.fat -V /dev/mmcblk0p1
Select option (1) to “Remove dirty bit”
./fsck.fat -a /dev/mmcblk0p1
mount /boot