<div>On 29/01/2008, Tony Arnold <<a href="mailto:tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk">tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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.</blockquote><div> 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 </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: <a href="mailto:tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk">tony.arnold@manchester.ac.uk</a>, H: <a href="http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold">http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold</a> -- <a href="mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk</a> <a href="https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/">https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/</a> </blockquote></div> -- --- London School of Puppetry <a href="http://www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com">www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com</a>