<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On May 30, 2008, at 12:41 PM, Arnaud Loos wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"> <div> <!-- Converted from text/rtf format --><p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">So my system decided to autorun fsck after 30 or so mounts on</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">my ubuntu system and it failed. I don</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">’</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">t have the error in front of me but it basically said I need to run it manually</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">with the drive unmounted. I</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">’</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">m going to boot from a livecd</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"> but my question is regarding the command line options. After reading the man page it seems fsck</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">–</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">y /dev/sda is all I need. Is this correct? I also noticed a few</font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">derivatives of fsck (i.e. e2fsck, etc). Is there a different command which would be better suited to my ext3 filesystem?</font></span></p></div></blockquote><br></div><div>'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. </div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>--</div><div>Jonathan Billings <<a href="mailto:billings@negate.org">billings@negate.org</a>></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></div></span> </div><br></body></html>