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I see that there are some other threads that mention this error, but I have tried the solutions with no luck.

When I log into my 12.04 Server, I get the message:

/dev/sdb1 will be checked for errors at next reboot
/dev/sdc1 will be checked for errors at next reboot

The problem is that the check is never done and I continue to get the messages. I ran a fsck on both drives and they are fine.

I tried a suggestion to do touch /forcefsck and reboot, but I'm still getting this warning. — pcm, Sep 5 '12 at 20:40
The message in the message of the day (motd) about drives being checked doesn't go away even when the drives have been checked. This is a known bug in Ubuntu. This is caused because that message is cached in the file /var/lib/update-notifier/fsck-at-reboot so that it is not constantly recomputed. /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot checks the timestamp on the file and is supposed to regenerate it every so often. However, there is a bug and the timestamp gets set in such a way that it never regenerate — Stephen Ostermiller, Apr 20 '13 at 10:12

izx · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-13 23:17:37Z

This is a known bug in Ubuntu 11.04 and apparently still exists in 12.04 LTS. What happens is what you described: you keep getting the notification even though there is nothing wrong with your hard drive and no checks are scheduled/will be done.

It's caused by the /usr/lib/update-notifier/update-motd-fsck-at-reboot script generating a /var/lib/update-notifier/fsck-at-reboot file with a timestamp in the future. The previous link has a convoluted solution from one of the Ubuntu maintainers (Steve Langasek), but it may be simplestto just do this:

Open a terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T

Type:

sudo rm /var/lib/update-notifier/fsck-at-reboot

Exit the terminal and reboot (or logout/login).

In my case editing the file and removing the text resolved the problem. When I tried removed it at next login it would simply recreate the file so it the problem would persist. — Savas Vedova, Feb 14 at 10:54
Here a command that will fix the problem without any sort of reboot or logout: sudo bash -c 'rm /var/lib/update-notifier/fsck-at-reboot && for file in /etc/update-motd.d/*; do $file; done > /var/run/motd' && cat /etc/motd — Stephen Ostermiller, May 9 at 19:24

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