[wplug] fsck options

[Jonathan Billings]

On May 30, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Arnaud Loos 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?
>

'fsck' is the generic name for the filesystem check for UNIX and UNIX  
derivatives. Most often, 'fsck' will actually run the appropriate  
filesystem for the device, so 'e2fsck' (fsck for EXT2 and EXT3  
filesystems) is fine to run on an EXT2/3 filesystem.  e2fsck won't  
work on a ReiserFS or XFS filesystem, however.

--
Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>


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