Updating and applying default GRUB settings in CentOS 7
- 21 Feb 2019: Post was created (diff)
I wanted to forcefully make systemd-fsck perform fsck on boot.
Make desired changes in /etc/default/grub or /etc/grub.d/40_custom.
I appended fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=preen to the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX variable:
$ cat /etc/default/grub
GRUB_TIMEOUT=5
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="$(sed 's, release .*$,,g' /etc/system-release)"
GRUB_DEFAULT=saved
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=true
GRUB_TERMINAL_OUTPUT="console"
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="crashkernel=auto rd.lvm.lv=centos_4/root rd.lvm.lv=centos_4/swap rhgb quiet fsck.mode=force fsck.repair=preen"
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY="true"
Depending on your system, apply changes using
- BIOS:
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg - EFI:
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/centos/grub.cfg
Output on my BIOS system:
$ sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
Generating grub configuration file ...
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-957.5.1.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-862.14.4.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-862.11.6.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-862.el7.x86_64.img
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-0-rescue-d46fbfa672984127815985c826ed7514
Found initrd image: /boot/initramfs-0-rescue-d46fbfa672984127815985c826ed7514.img
done
After a, hopefully, successful reboot, I’d want to remove these settings again.
References
man systemd-fsck- https://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/Grub2
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/152249/28043
- https://hackerific.net/2016/03/09/fscking-centos-7/
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