FSCK = File System ChecK
It is the equivalent of Scandisc in Windos (i.e. it finds and corrects file
system errors), but it does a much more thorough job. It will usually kick in
automatically on your Ext2 partitions if you haven't unmounted them correctly
(e.g. not shut down correctly) and after a certain number of mount/unmount
operations (I forget how many).
Journalling filesystems like ReiserFS (in Mandrake since 7.1), Ext3 (in
Cooker), and JFS (not in Mandrake) remove the need to FSCK, and so are far
more rugged then Ext2.
On Tue, 14 Aug 2001 23:16, Robert MacLean wrote:
> Hi
>
> I had a power problem and my machine reset, and I was prompted to
> login and use fsck. My question is two fold. What is fsck (it seems
> dangerous from the man pages) and secondly what are the command line
> options I should use?
>
> Robert MacLean
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