[ubuntu-uk] fsck

[London School of Puppetry]

On 29/01/2008, Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk> wrote:
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>
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> 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)
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> 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.


Oh.....I put in fsck and it all came to life and it took several hours.
Everything fine now.
How will I know if damage has been done?

Caroline

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