diff --git a/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh b/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh
index d41ddf7..0617575 100644
--- a/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh
+++ b/recipes-phosphor/initrdscripts/phosphor-mmc-init/mmc-init.sh
@@ -48,7 +48,10 @@
 if ! mount /dev/disk/by-partlabel/"$(get_root)" $rodir -t ext4 -o ro; then
     /bin/sh
 fi
-if ! mount /dev/disk/by-partlabel/rwfs $rodir/var -t ext4 -o rw; then
+
+rwfsdev="/dev/disk/by-partlabel/rwfs"
+fsck.ext4 -p "${rwfsdev}"
+if ! mount "${rwfsdev}" $rodir/var -t ext4 -o rw; then
     /bin/sh
 fi