[ubuntu-uk] fsck

[Tony Arnold]

Chris Bannister wrote:
> On 29/01/08 19:53, London School of Puppetry wrote:
> 
>> Can someone tell me the code for doing a manual fsck check?
> 
> Unless you need it to do something specific you just need to run
> 
> fsck /dev/device_name
> 
> as root or via sudo (replacing /dev/device_name with the real device of
> course)

fsck will complain if the device is mounted. It will continue if you let
it but it warns that it may cause severe file system damage. I suggest
you boot from a live CD and then run fsck from there.

Regards,
Tony.
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