I am running sudo e2fsck -f /dev/sda1  I suppose I could interrupt it (if I
knew how) and add the v and p options.  Certainly the -v is a no-brainer.

-Denis

On Sat, Jul 4, 2015 at 4:20 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Jul 2015, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
>
> > As I said, "I booted from a live CD and attempted to run fsck. It spends
> > zero time to respond that /dev/sda1 is clean."
> >
> > Are there some options I should use when running fsck?  I know when
> Ubuntu
> > runs automatically  every so often on boot that it takes a few minutes to
> > complete.  Yet when I run fsck from the live CD it completes immediately,
> > with no errors.
>
> Denis,
>
>    After booting with the live CD and running 'mount' what devices are
> shown?
>
>    What specific command did you give e2fsck? Notice that there are
> different
> options for fsck and e2fsck. The latter works on ext2, ext3, and ext4 file
> systems. I believe the options that Slackware suggested I use include:
>
>    -f (force checking/repairing even if the initial report is a clean
> device),
>    -p (automatically 'preen' -- repair -- the filesystem),
>    -v (verbose mode)
>
>    So, to fix /dev/sda1/ write
>         e2fsck -fpv /dev/sda1
>
>    Look at man e2fsck to check whether you want these options, too.
>
> Rich
>
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