fsck question

[Markus Schönhaber]

05.10.2010 17:00, Maxime Alarie:

> If I start fsck using the command fsck -p -c /dev/sda1      is it normal
> that when I do a  ps -ef | grep fsck  I get 2 running processes? : 

Yes, that's normal.

> root      2658  2586  0 10:41 pts/0    00:00:00 fsck -p -c /dev/sda1
> 
> root      2659  2658  0 10:41 pts/0    00:00:00 fsck.ext3 -p -c
> /dev/sda1
> 
> root      2804  2743  0 10:56 pts/1    00:00:00 grep -i fsck

fsck doesn't do any file-system checking itself. What it essentially
does is determine the type of the target file-system and launch the
appropriate fsck.fstype binary (fsck.ext3 in your case) that actually
does the work.

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Regards
  mks