fsck with noauto

[Jorge Almeida]

This list has been mighty quiet.

Well, I could use your know-how. I have an external IDE disk, used for
backups. It has two partitions with ext2 fs. I have "noauto,user     0
0" in the corresponding entries in /etc/fstab. Of course, this means
that  fsck'ing is not made automatically. Changing "0 0" to "0 2" has
the effect that the system doesn't enter multiuser mode, as the disk
is not powered up.

So, what strategy is best in such cases? I could cook up a script to
be used instead of "mount" that would do the checking and then do the
mounting. How can I find out what command+options are called by fstab
with "0 2"?

TNX

Jorge Almeida