[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#595131: fsck died with exit status 1. Why?

[jidanni at jidanni.org]

Package: initscripts
X-debbugs-Cc: util-linux at packages.debian.org
Version: 2.88dsf-12
Severity: wishlist
File: /etc/init.d/checkfs.sh

In /var/log/boot we see

Checking root file system...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sda11: clean, 11590/68112 files, 69779/272152 blocks
done.
Cleaning up ifupdown....
Loading kernel modules...done.
Activating lvm and md swap...done.
Checking file systems...fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2
/dev/sda6: clean, 49093/542720 files, 3218303/4339408 blocks
/dev/sda7: clean, 19654/678912 files, 4454047/5428048 blocks
/dev/sda8 has been mounted 22 times without being checked, check forced.
\002/dev/sda8: 106777/814400 files (3.3% non-contiguous), 594092/1627282 blocks
/dev/sda9: clean, 314766/950272 files, 1217559/1899442 blocks
/dev/sda10: clean, 1958/490560 files, 1376017/1959922 blocks
fsck died with exit status 1
done.

"Why did it die with exit status 1?" the user wants to know.
Please make sure the answer gets told, as it does not lie in any
/dev/log/* file.

Feel free to reassign this bug to the util-linux package.