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a tool to check the consistency of and repair a file system for Unix-like operating systems

Fsck ("file system check") is a tool to check the consistency of and repair a file system for and Unix-like operating systems, such as and Mac .

Man page: http://www.manpagez.com/man/8/fsck/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck

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What is the meaning of Linux e2fsck "restarting fsck from the beginning"?

My regularly monthly corruption of my drobo ext3 linux means I have fsck -f -y the device but I'm getting the message above a few hours into the process. Anyone know what that means? I expect that it is a consequence of the regular corruption, for…
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What are the files list-l and list-c in Ubuntu after fsck on boot

I did fsck on ext4 on reboot on Ubuntu 9.10 by: cd /forcefsck && reboot. This went fine, but two new files appeared afterwards in /: list-l and list-c. Both are empty. What is the purpose of these files? Thank you
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tune2fs: No such device or address while trying to open /dev/sda1?

My hard disk is going to bad: Apr 3 20:26:48 207 kernel: aacraid: Host adapter abort request (0,0,0,0) Apr 3 20:26:48 207 kernel: aacraid: Host adapter reset request. SCSI hang ? Apr 3 20:26:58 207 kernel: sd 0:0:0:0: timing out command, waited…
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Can't fsck From Live CD

I'm trying to run fsck from a Linux Mint Julia live CD, but something seems to be going wrong. When I run: sudo fsck /dev/sda5 I get the response fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 e2fsck 1.41.12 (17-May-2010) fsck.ext4: Device or resource busy while…
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Frequent dirty file systems

Good morning, I'm seeing an issue on a few servers that they are going 'dirty' a lot, around once a month. For example: This was on 11/8: # tune2fs -l /dev/sda7 | grep state Filesystem state: clean with errors We ran a fsck on home, and it…
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CentOS server boots but won't allow login (ext3_abort_called, remounts read-only)

I've got a CentOS 5.5 server (HP ProLiant with two-disk RAID array) that was working fine until a power failure last week. (Long story, but UPS was not properly configured at that time.) After the power failure, the server came back online and…
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How to repair ext3 boot partition?

I have a small VIA Ubuntu server used as firewall and a second one with Ubuntu desktop for hosting different services (web, mail, ...). For an unknown reason some errors occurred in the sda1 partition (boot partition) of both computers. I suspect…
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How to rebuild the filesystem of a recovered partition

I managed to ruin a server drive by trying to clone it to another drive with dd. In the process, the original boot and sda1 partitions were overwritten. I immediatly stopped using the drive,I made an image of the damaged drive with ddrescue then…
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Linux console is not prompting for root p/w after detecting "RUN fsck MANUALLY" - how to proceed?

Last night our datacenter host had issues filling up their storage (again!!!) and caused all our VMs to drop to r/o. After the admins allocated some more storage, a simple reboot on most of our VMs cleared their filesystem errors with the usual…
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fsck last check for vfat and other filesystem (other than ext)

Is it possible to find the last check for vfat or other filesystem. since tune2fs can only be used for ext file system. Can someone address me with this? Advanced Thanks..
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Why does fsck not working when I try to repair the filesystem

I try to mount /dev/nvme0n1p1. Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 465.76 GiB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Disk model: Samsung SSD 980 PRO 500GB Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O…
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mkfs + any solution for “could not read block” or disk replacing

we doing mkfs on the disk sda as the following mkfs.ext4 -j -m 0 /dev/sda -F mke2fs 1.42.9 (28-Dec-2013) Warning: could not erase sector 2: Attempt to write block to filesystem resulted in short write Filesystem label= OS type: Linux Block…
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Linux fsck.ext3 says "Device or resource busy" although I did not mount the disk

Edit This old question is maybe not worth reading, because the soulution is simple. I used checkdisk on the whole drive instead of on a partition of that drive, that's all. matnagel /Edit I am running an ubuntu 8.04 server instance with a 8GB…
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Can fsck on ufs cause data loss?

I'm on FreeBSD8. I have a problem with a partition. I can't mount it. It says "Operation not permitted." I run fsck -t ufs /dev/da0p1. After it finish the operation, I can mount it successfully. But there is no any data in the partition now. I don't…
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Hang on FDISK New Partition

I am attempting to reformat a drive. Was originally formatted for Solaris with a ZFS filesystem. I am reformatting for my Linux (debian). I used fdisk to remove all existing partitions. Both fdisk and cfdisk hang when trying to create the new…
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