[wplug] fsck options

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Sun Jun 1 14:25:31 EDT 2008


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Arnaud Loos <arnaud at arnaudloos.com> wrote:
> So my system decided to autorun fsck after 30 or so mounts on my ubuntu
> system and it failed. I don't have the error in front of me but it basically
> said I need to run it manually with the drive unmounted. I'm going to boot
> from a livecd but my question is regarding the command line options. After
> reading the man page it seems fsck –y /dev/sda is all I need. Is this
> correct? I also noticed a few derivatives of fsck (i.e. e2fsck, etc). Is
> there a different command which would be better suited to my ext3
> filesystem?

It's optional, but I like using -C which prints the progress bar.

> Thanks.
>
> Arnaud-
>
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