FSCK.NFS(8)

💖 FSCK.NFS(8) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the System Manager's Manual entry for fsck.nfs — yes it's a whole manual page, yes it's tiny, no we are not skipping a single word of it. sit down, hydrate, let's go 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

fsck.nfs — the dummy fsck.nfs script that always returns success. that's it. that's the whole job. she shows up, she says "yep ✅", she leaves. main character energy with zero responsibilities, honestly iconic 👑

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

fsck.nfs

that's the whole vibe. no flags, no arguments, no drama. she takes nothing and she gives nothing but success 💅

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the tea, and it's genuinely a fun little Debian lore drop 🍓

Debian GNU/Linux needs this script for when the root file system is on NFS. like, they need it need it. because — and this is the plot twist — there is no way to find out if root is NFS mounted. none. nada. the system literally cannot tell. 🙈

and yet we really want to do a "fsck -a /". we want it SO bad. so instead of doing the impossible, we do the next best thing: we hand the job to a little script that just goes "sure bestie, done ✨" and returns success.

it's not lying, it's performing optimism. and honestly? we respect it.

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👑 EXIT CODE 👑

the exit code returned by mount.nfs is always zero, meaning successful completion. always. every single time. no cap. zero means "we ate and left no crumbs", and that is the only number this script knows how to say 💯

no notes, the exit code is literally always 0. that's the whole exit-code situation.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• fsck(8)
• fstab(5)

go read those if you want the extended universe, because this page is a little three-episode miniseries and those are the full franchise 🎀

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and that's a wrap, bestie!! this page is from the Initscripts corner of the world, dated May 2004 — a true vintage queen who has been returning success since before some of us were born 💜✨ go forth and fsck responsibly 🧚