Confused about fsck

[Colin Law]

On 14 December 2011 16:14, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 04:01:16PM +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> ...
>> I can't see any options on fsck to specify what is to
>> be checked.  Can someone explain what is going on?
>
> Now if you want to do a full check, in case you don't trust the
> 'filesystem clean' bit, you can force a check with
>
>  sudo fsck -f /dev/sdb1

That is what I was looking for.  I was confused by the fact that -f
does not appear on man fsck.  I see now that that is because it is not
supplied by fsck but by e2fsck (or whatever).

Many thanks to yourself and the others that responded.

Colin