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NAME
       e2fsck.conf - Configuration file for e2fsck

DESCRIPTION
       e2fsck.conf  is the configuration file for e2fsck(8).  It controls the default behavior of
       e2fsck(8) while it is checking ext2, ext3, or ext4 filesystems.

       The e2fsck.conf file uses an INI-style format.  Stanzas, or top-level sections, are delim‐
       ited  by  square  braces:  [  ].  Within each section, each line defines a relation, which
       assigns tags to values, or to a subsection, which contains further  relations  or  subsec‐
       tions.  An example of the INI-style format used by this configuration file follows below:

            [section1]
                 tag1 = value_a
                 tag1 = value_b
                 tag2 = value_c

            [section 2]
                 tag3 = {
                      subtag1 = subtag_value_a
                      subtag1 = subtag_value_b
                      subtag2 = subtag_value_c
                 }
                 tag1 = value_d
                 tag2 = value_e
            }

       Comments  are delimited by a semicolon (';') or a hash ('#') character at the beginning of
       the comment, and are terminated by the end of line character.

       Tags and values must be quoted using double quotes  if  they  contain  spaces.   Within  a
       quoted string, the standard backslash interpretations apply: "\n" (for the newline charac‐
       ter), "\t" (for the tab character), "\b" (for the backspace character), and "\\" (for  the
       backslash character).

       The  following  stanzas  are used in the e2fsck.conf file.  They will be described in more
       detail in future sections of this document.

       [options]
              This stanza contains general configuration parameters for e2fsck's behavior.

       [problems]
              This stanza allows the administrator to  reconfigure  how  e2fsck  handles  various
              filesystem inconsistencies.

       [scratch_files]
              This  stanza  controls  when e2fsck will attempt to use scratch files to reduce the
              need for memory.

THE [options] STANZA
       The following relations are defined in the [options] stanza.

       allow_cancellation
              If this relation is set to a boolean value of true, then  if  the  user  interrupts
              e2fsck using ^C, and the filesystem is not explicitly flagged as containing errors,
              e2fsck will exit with an exit status of 0 instead of 32.  This setting defaults  to
              false.

       accept_time_fudge
              Unfortunately,  due  to Windows' unfortunate design decision to configure the hard‐
              ware clock to tick localtime, instead of the more proper and less  error-prone  UTC
              time,  many users end up in the situation where the system clock is incorrectly set
              at the time when e2fsck is run.

              Historically this was usually due to some distributions having buggy  init  scripts
              and/or installers that didn't correctly detect this case and take appropriate coun‐
              termeasures.  Unfortunately, this is occasionally true even today, usually due to a
              buggy or misconfigured virtualization manager or the installer not having access to
              a network time server during the installation process.  So by default, we allow the
              superblock  times  to be fudged by up to 24 hours.  This can be disabled by setting
              accept_time_fudge to the boolean value of false.  This setting defaults to true.

       broken_system_clock
              The e2fsck(8) program has some heuristics that assume that the system clock is cor‐
              rect.   In  addition,  many system programs make similar assumptions.  For example,
              the UUID library depends on time not going backwards in order for it to be able  to
              make  its  guarantees  about  issuing universally unique ID's.  Systems with broken
              system clocks, are well, broken.  However, broken system  clocks,  particularly  in
              embedded  systems, do exist.  E2fsck will attempt to use heuristics to determine if
              the time can not be trusted; and to skip time-based checks if  this  is  true.   If
              this  boolean  is set to true, then e2fsck will always assume that the system clock
              can not be trusted.

       buggy_init_scripts
              This boolean relation is an alias for accept_time_fudge for  backwards  compatibil‐
              ity;  it  used to be that the behavior defined by accept_time_fudge above defaulted
              to false, and buggy_init_scripts would enable superblock time field to be wrong  by
              up to 24 hours.  When we changed the default, we also renamed this boolean relation
              to accept_time_fudge.

       clear_test_fs_flag
              This boolean relation controls whether or not e2fsck(8) will  offer  to  clear  the
              test_fs  flag  if  the  ext4 filesystem is available on the system.  It defaults to
              true.

       defer_check_on_battery
              This boolean relation controls whether  or  not  the  interval  between  filesystem
              checks  (either  based on time or number of mounts) should be doubled if the system
              is running on battery.  This setting defaults to true.

       indexed_dir_slack_percentage
              When e2fsck(8) repacks a indexed directory, reserve  the  specified  percentage  of
              empty space in each leaf nodes so that a few new entries can be added to the direc‐
              tory without splitting leaf nodes, so that the average fill  ratio  of  directories
              can  be maintained at a higher, more efficient level.  This relation defaults to 20
              percent.

       log_dir
              If the log_filename relation contains a relative pathname, then the log  file  will
              be placed in the directory named by the log_dir relation.

       log_dir_fallback
              This  relation  contains  an alternate directory that will be used if the directory
              specified by log_dir is not available or is not writeable.

       log_dir_wait
              If this boolean relation is true, them if the directories specified by  log_dir  or
              log_dir_fallback  are  not available or are not yet writeable, e2fsck will save the
              output in a memory buffer, and a child process will periodically test to see if the
              log directory has become available after the boot sequence has mounted the requiste
              filesytem for reading/writing.   This  implements  the  functionality  provided  by
              logsave(8) for e2fsck log files.

       log_filename
              This relation specifies the file name where a copy of e2fsck's output will be writ‐
              ten.   If certain problem reports are suppressed using the max_count_problems rela‐
              tion,  (or  on  a  per-problem basis using the max_count relation), the full set of
              problem reports will be written to the log file.  The filename may contain  various
              percent-expressions (%D, %T, %N, etc.) which will be expanded so that the file name
              for the log file can include things like date, time, device name,  and  other  run-
              time parameters.  See the LOGGING section for more details.

       max_count_problems
              This  relation specifies the maximum number of problem reports of a particular type
              will be printed  to  stdout  before  further  problem  reports  of  that  type  are
              squelched.   This can be useful if the console is slow (i.e., connected to a serial
              port) and so a large amount of output could end up delaying the boot process for  a
              long time (potentially hours).

       report_features
              If  this  boolean  relation  is true, e2fsck will print the file system features as
              part of its verbose reporting (i.e., if the -v option is specified)

       report_time
              If this boolean relation is true, e2fsck will run as if the options -tt are  always
              specified.   This  will  cause  e2fsck to print timing statistics on a pass by pass
              basis for full file system checks.

       report_verbose
              If this boolean relation is true, e2fsck will run as if the  option  -v  is  always
              specified.   This will cause e2fsck to print some additional information at the end
              of each full file system check.

THE [problems] STANZA
       Each tag in the [problems] stanza names a problem code specified with a leading "0x"  fol‐
       lowed by six hex digits.  The value of the tag is a subsection where the relations in that
       subsection override the default treatment of that particular problem code.

       Note that inappropriate settings in this stanza may cause e2fsck to behave incorrectly, or
       even crash.  Most system administrators should not be making changes to this section with‐
       out referring to source code.

       Within each problem code's subsection, the following tags may be used:

       description
              This relation allows the message which is printed when  this  filesystem  inconsis‐
              tency is detected to be overridden.

       preen_ok
              This  boolean  relation  overrides  the  default  behavior controlling whether this
              filesystem problem should be automatically fixed when e2fsck is  running  in  preen
              mode.

       max_count
              This  integer  relation  overrides  the  max_count_problems  parameter  (set in the
              options section) for this particular problem.

       no_ok  This boolean relation overrides the default behavior determining whether or not the
              filesystem  will be marked as inconsistent if the user declines to fix the reported
              problem.

       no_default
              This boolean relation overrides whether the default answer  for  this  problem  (or
              question) should be "no".

       preen_nomessage
              This boolean relation overrides the default behavior controlling whether or not the
              description for this filesystem problem should be suppressed when e2fsck is running
              in preen mode.

       no_nomsg
              This boolean relation overrides the default behavior controlling whether or not the
              description for this filesystem problem should be suppressed when a problem  forced
              not  to  be  fixed,  either because e2fsck is run with the -n option or because the
              force_no flag has been set for the problem.

       force_no
              This boolean option, if set to true, forces a problem to never be fixed.  That  is,
              it  will  be  as  if the user problem responds 'no' to the question of 'should this
              problem be fixed?'.  The force_no option even overrides the -y option given on  the
              command-line (just for the specific problem, of course).

THE [scratch_files] STANZA
       The following relations are defined in the [scratch_files] stanza.

       directory
              If  the  directory named by this relation exists and is writeable, then e2fsck will
              attempt to use this directory to store scratch files  instead  of  using  in-memory
              data structures.

       numdirs_threshold
              If  this  relation  is set, then in-memory data structures be used if the number of
              directories in the filesystem are fewer than amount specified.

       dirinfo
              This relation controls whether or not the scratch file directory is used instead of
              an in-memory data structure for directory information.  It defaults to true.

       icount This relation controls whether or not the scratch file directory is used instead of
              an in-memory data structure when tracking inode counts.  It defaults to true.

LOGGING
       E2fsck has the facility to save the information from an e2fsck run in a directory so  that
       a  system  administrator  can review its output at their leisure.  This allows information
       captured during the automatic e2fsck preen run, as well as a manually started e2fsck  run,
       to  be  saved  for  posterity.   This facility is controlled by the log_filename, log_dir,
       log_dir_fallback, and log_dir_wait relations in the [options] stanza.

       The filename in log_filename may contain the following percent-expressions  that  will  be
       expanded as follows.

       %d     The current day of the month

       %D     The current date; this is a equivalent of %Y%m%d

       %h     The hostname of the system.

       %H     The current hour in 24-hour format (00..23)

       %m     The current month as a two-digit number (01..12)

       %M     The current minute (00..59)

       %N     The  name  of the block device containing the file system, with any directory path‐
              name stripped off.

       %p     The pid of the e2fsck process

       %s     The current time expressed as the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC

       %S     The current second (00..59)

       %T     The current time; this is equivalent of %H%M%S

       %u     The name of the user running e2fsck.

       %U     This percent expression does not expand to anything, but it signals that  any  fol‐
              lowing  date  or  time  expressions  should be expressed in UTC time instead of the
              local timzeone.

       %y     The last two digits of the current year (00..99)

       %Y     The current year (i.e., 2012).

EXAMPLES
       The following recipe will prevent e2fsck from aborting during  the  boot  process  when  a
       filesystem  contains  orphaned  files.   (Of course, this is not always a good idea, since
       critical files that are needed for the security of the system could potentially end up  in
       lost+found,  and  starting  the  system  without first having a system administrator check
       things out may be dangerous.)

            [problems]
                 0x040002 = {
                      preen_ok = true
                      description = "@u @i %i.  "
                 }

       The following recipe will  cause  an  e2fsck  logfile  to  be  written  to  the  directory
       /var/log/e2fsck,  with  a filename that contains the device name, the hostname of the sys‐
       tem, the date, and time: e.g., "e2fsck-sda3.server.INFO.20120314-112142".  If  the  direc‐
       tory  containing  /var/log  is  located on the root file system which is initially mounted
       read-only, then the output will be saved in memory and written out once the root file sys‐
       tem  has  been  remounted read/write.   To avoid too much detail from being written to the
       serial console (which could potentially slow down the boot sequence), only print  no  more
       than 16 instances of each type of file system corruption.

            [options]
                 max_count_problems = 16
                 log_dir = /var/log/e2fsck
                 log_filename = e2fsck-%N.%h.INFO.%D-%T
                 log_dir_wait = true

FILES
       /etc/e2fsck.conf
              The configuration file for e2fsck(8).

SEE ALSO
       e2fsck(8)



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