Ubuntu
e2fsprogs package

  1. Bug #63175
  2. Comment #48

Comment 48 for bug 63175

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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote :

>I still dont get the proper answer at this simple question on each bug reports.
>Why settings made by tune2fs isnt check by fsck.

E2fsck is checking the superblock settings made by tune2fs. However, in order to perform the check based on times since last fsck time, e2fsck requires that the system clock be set correctly. With current buggy Debian/Ubuntu boot scripts, this isn't happening.

I could work around the problem by adding a config option to /etc/e2fsck.conf

[work-around-buggy-Ubuntu-boot-scripts]
       time-offset = 43200

Which would tell e2fsck to subtract 43,200 seconds from the time returned by time(0), to work around the fact that Ubuntu is screwing up the system clock in the early boot cycle due to not correctly handling the time zone correctly. But otherwise, this is not a problem to solved by e2fsck, but by the buggy Debian/Ubuntu boot scripts that can't be bothered to have the time set correctly when e2fsck is run.