Confused about fsck
Colin Law
clanlaw at googlemail.com
Wed Dec 14 16:01:16 UTC 2011
Every so often my system checks my disk on bootup. I thought that
this was done using fsck. It takes a couple of minutes to do the
check.
I have an external 250GB USB disk that I wish to check. I plug in the
disk and check it is not mounted (it appears as /dev/sdb1) and run
sudo fsck /dev/sdb1
This returns immediately saying that the disk is clean, whereas I had
expected it to take a little while checking things, so it does not
seem to be doing the same things that the check on startup does on the
built in disk. I can't see any options on fsck to specify what is to
be checked. Can someone explain what is going on?
Colin
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