Tunefs / Forcing fsck

Adam Conrad adconrad at ubuntu.com
Mon Mar 6 08:07:32 UTC 2006


Tim T. wrote:
> 
> When I run fsck, it reports the partition is clean and immediately 
> returns. I think I need to use tunefs to reset the clean flag, but I
> can't find it anywhere on my system.. Where is it ?

(base)adconrad at cthulhu:~$ man fsck.ext3 | grep Force
Reformatting fsck.ext3(8), please wait...
       -f     Force checking even if the file system seems clean.

... Adam




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