I have /usr on a separate LVM. After an unclean shutdown, I got messages during boot that /usr is unclean, but it did not get checked. Booting continued fine, but I had to use a live cd later to manually fsck this partition, which indeed had some errors that were fixed. Portage 2.2.0_alpha114 (default/linux/amd64/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.6.3, glibc-2.15-r2, 3.4.4-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System Settings ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.4.4-gentoo-x86_64-AMD_FX-tm-4100_Quad-Core_Processor-with-gentoo-2.1 Timestamp of tree: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 07:45:01 +0000 distcc 3.1 x86_64-pc-linux-gnu [enabled] ccache version 3.1.7 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p29 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.12 dev-lang/python: 2.6.8, 2.7.3-r2, 3.2.3-r1 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.7 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.8-r3 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.1-r1 sys-apps/openrc: 0.10.3 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.5 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.9.6-r3, 1.11.5, 1.12.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.22-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.7, 4.5.3-r2, 4.6.3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.7.3 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r3 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.4 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.15-r2 Repositories: gentoo zugaina nx kde enlightenment emacs dfreise proaudio science gamerlay-stable xarthisius sunrise local ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-pipe -march=amdfam10 -O2 -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -msse -msse2 -msse3 -msse4a -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -m3dnow -mcx16 -msahf -maes -mpclmul -mpopcnt -mabm -mlwp -mavx --param l1-cache-size=16 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=2048" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.2/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5.4/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/openvpn/easy-rsa" CXXFLAGS="-pipe -march=amdfam10 -O2 -floop-interchange -floop-strip-mine -floop-block -msse -msse2 -msse3 -msse4a -msse4.1 -msse4.2 -m3dnow -mcx16 -msahf -maes -mpclmul -mpopcnt -mabm -mlwp -mavx --param l1-cache-size=16 --param l1-cache-line-size=64 --param l2-cache-size=2048" DISTDIR="/var/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--keep-going --with-bdeps y --load-average=6.0" FCFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs buildpkg buildsyspkg collision-protect config-protect-if-modified distcc distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles news parallel-fetch parse-eapi-ebuild-head preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch userpriv usersandbox xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -pipe" GENTOO_MIRRORS="rsync://mirror.netcologne.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" LANG="de_DE.utf8" LC_ALL="C" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" LINGUAS="de en" MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load 5" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/portage/tmpfs" PORTDIR="/var/portage/tree" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/portage/layman/zugaina /var/portage/layman/nx /var/portage/layman/kde /var/portage/layman/enlightenment /var/portage/layman/emacs /var/portage/layman/dfreise /var/portage/layman/pro-audio /var/portage/layman/science /var/portage/layman/gamerlay /var/portage/layman/xarthisius /var/portage/layman/sunrise /var/portage/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" 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startup-notification subversion svg tcpd theora threads tiff truetype udev udisks unicode upower usb videos vim-syntax visualization vnc vorbis wma wmf wxwidgets wxwindows x264 xattr xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xorg xosd xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="cgi alias auth_basic authn_file authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user dir mime userdir" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="kexi words flow plan sheets stage tables krita karbon braindump" CAMERAS="ptp2" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" FRITZCAPI_CARDS="fcpci" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev keyboard mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-console presenter-minimizer" LINGUAS="de en" LIRC_DEVICES="serial" MISDN_CARDS="avmfritz" PHP_TARGETS="php5-3 php5-4" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_2 python2_7" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18 ruby19" SANE_BACKENDS="canon_pp microtek plustek_pp" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="radeon" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON ================================================================= Package Settings ================================================================= sys-kernel/genkernel-3.4.36 was built with the following: USE="(consolekit) crypt cryptsetup (multilib) (policykit) (-ibm) (-selinux)"
genkernel doesn't do any fsck. That's the responsibility of the system, before mounting R/W. Genkernel only mounts R/O because it's not safe to mount R/W so early, and we don't want to include all the fsck helpers in genkernel, otherwise the initramfs would be huge.
