e2fsck.conf
is the configuration file for
e2fsck(8).
It controls the default behavior of
e2fsck(8)
while it is checking ext2 or ext3 filesystems.
The
e2fsck.conf
file uses an INI-style format. Stanzas, or top-level sections, are
delimited 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 subsections.
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 character),
"\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.