diff --git a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/APKBUILD b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/APKBUILD
index 639f106c9..5f14954cd 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/APKBUILD
+++ b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/APKBUILD
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 pkgname=postmarketos-mkinitfs
-pkgver=0.7.20
+pkgver=0.7.21
 pkgrel=0
 pkgdesc="Tool to generate initramfs images for postmarketOS"
 url="https://postmarketos.org"
@@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ package() {
 		"$pkgdir/sbin/mkinitfs"
 	mkdir -p "$pkgdir/etc/postmarketos-mkinitfs/hooks/"
 }
-
 sha512sums="8be7f29394f8cd4e1c4b93f018f6314350f7e37e20d242c97284c1b112a106f882318a101bc0c70b391590b969023901580c677ee9f869850e90e69171a44e80  init.sh.in
-4131608b597cf750d0f3931623088d0e11896fb3dd99c3c5699a3ff995d932d72b4c80d4a29edc34007b9fc5b17d41492bd21dc532199dfc7054d6a4c8349043  init_functions.sh
+3c20fdfd4b06a975a0ebcf8f335a56028e0f58109078f0312f7b62eec4e0874e53aef7e538d6e6770f7bae6441166770795c32ee833569eda856239aeb44022b  init_functions.sh
 3f918f8b5967b73e507c2ddf36dccc24fee98298f05ca23e22605400de95137f8877e09769616e7db388557c645fb45c03e1e6b5bab815ec9f853c318f0431f1  mkinitfs.sh"
diff --git a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/init_functions.sh b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/init_functions.sh
index c1abc48fe..28e282658 100644
--- a/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/init_functions.sh
+++ b/main/postmarketos-mkinitfs/init_functions.sh
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ resize_root_filesystem() {
 	partition="$(find_root_partition)"
 	touch /etc/mtab # see https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=673323
 	echo "Check/repair root filesystem ($partition)"
-	e2fsck -f -y "$partition"
+	e2fsck -y "$partition"
 	echo "Resize root filesystem ($partition)"
 	resize2fs -f "$partition"
 }