touch /forcefsck not working on Fedora16

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Published on 2012-04-02T04:25:34Z Indexed on 2012/04/02 5:33 UTC
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I need to run fsck in order to repair my one and only hard-disk. I have no rescue CD/USB available.

I did the following:

touch /forcefsck
chmod a+rw /forcefsck # just to be really sure
reboot

But no fsck happened on reboot, though the /forcefsck file quietly disappeared (why BTW?)!

I saw some responses on the Net suggesting a shutdown -rF to auto-run fsck on reboot, but the shutdown I have on my F16 does not have any -F option.

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