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Then you can simply force or schedule a reboot of your system. Use the following command: # touch /forcefsck This is relatively easy to complete, the only thing you need to do is create a file called forcefsck in the root partition of your system. Since you cannot run fsck while the partition is mounted, you can try one of these options: In some cases, you may need to run fsck on the root partition of your system. Similarly, you can run the same on all filesystems (without root): $ fsck -AR -y The -y flag, automatically “yes” to any prompts from fsck to correct an error. This can be done with: # fsck -y /dev/sdb In such cases, you may want fsck to automatically attempt to correct the errors. Sometimes more than one error can be found on a filesystem.

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These codes can be seen in fsck’s manual by running: # man fsckĤ Filesystem errors were left uncorrected Run fsck on Linux Partition Understanding fsck Exit CodesĪfter running fsck, it will return an exit code. To avoid this unmount the partition using. Here is what happens if I try to run fsck when the partition is mounted. For the purpose of this article, I will use my second drive /dev/sdb mounted in /mnt. In order to run fsck, you will need to ensure that the partition you are going to check is not mounted. Run fsck Command to Repair Linux File System Errors

-V – Provide a description of what is being done.

-t – Exclusively specify the Linux filesystem types to be checked.

-r – Provide statistics for each device that is being checked.-R – Do not check the root filesystem.-P – If you want to check filesystems in parallel, including root.-N – Only show what would be done – no actual changes are made.-l – Locks the device to guarantee no other program will try to use the partition during the check.-A – Used for checking all filesystems.Below you will see some of the more important options: Their usage depends on your specific case. The fsck command needs to be run with superuser privileges or root. The attached drive (including flash drives/SD cards) is not working as expected.Files on the system become corrupt (often you may see input/output error).There are different scenarios when you will want to run fsck.

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Run fsck Command to Repair Linux File System Errors.

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Maybe I just need a new pc :-D I do have a spare new hdd on standby but either way I'd be looking at a full reinstall :-( which I would like to put off :-/. I've had the pc for ~5 or 6-years and it was a cheap-ass msi microATX design that supported my AGP video cardĪnyone care to venture a guess as to what is going on with my hdd? I have suspected other factors including MB traces damaged during original assembly, and/or (possibly related) ata bus issues.

Apparently fs errors are being introduced by this stress, unless it is just a coincidence. This also causes frequent slowdowns and swap thrashing, although so long as I remember to quit out of firefox the slow downs and disk thrashing go away. The issue apparently arose after I began editing some larger files in GIMP (I recently acquired a new photo scanner), along with running gThumb and Firefox in a memory-constrained (2 GB) environment. While I had it running from systemrescuecd, I was able to do a backup of recent work to another pc. Hopefully '0 bad blocks' in the summary is significant (?) The hdd passed a smartmon quick test with no errors reported.

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