On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 14:39, Dale Starr wrote:
> Hi, I was hoping that someone could help me with this question. I have a 
> redhat box as a fileserver I was just wondering something about the EXT3 
> filesystem (or maybe them all in general). After a power outage, the machine 
> started up with the following error
> ####### Start Message #######
> 
> Your filesystem appears to be shutdown uncleanly
> Press Y within 4 seconds to force file system integrity check
> #So I press 'y'
> /dev/hda5:
> /lost+found not found. CREATED
> /dev/hda5: Optimizind Directories: 16350 48487 63105 79467 94847 111234 
> 126216 126813 141986 ....(continues)....
> /dev/hda5: ***** REBOOT LINUX *****
> /dev/hda5: 63815/52416 files (0.3% non contiguous), 158268/504031 blocks
> Failed to check filesystem. Do you want to repair the errors? (Y/N) (beware 
> you can lose data)
> 
> ####### END Message #######
> 
> When I select "yes," I was just wondering how after it does the checks and 
> fixes the errors I can see what its done. If a file got corrupted during the 
> shutdown and it wasn't able to be repaired (through the journal, etc...) how 
> would I know what files were affected so I could manually remove/fix them so 
> that I dont have corrupted files lying around? Is there a log of some sort? 
> Thank you in advance for your help.
> 

>From what I see in the above you where just missing lost+found and some
of the directories needed to be optimized.  No real evidence of
corruption.  As for a corrupted files .. if there had been any it would
have notified you.  As for seeing output

fsck -V > list.txt 

or if you want it to go to screen 

fsck -V




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