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Re: Does it need fsck?

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On 2016-10-23, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> I do my backups to SATA disks plugged into a USB dock, which works
> perfectly well for my purposes. However, the system reports that the
> backup disks require fsck (if indeed they do) when they are (auto)mounted,
> but only in /var/log/kern.log. I'd like to incorporate that functionality
> in my backup script (which I wrote).
>
> Before I sit down and do that (probably by parsing the output from
> dumpe2fs), does anyone know if there's a standard utility that will
> tell me if USB disks require fsck?

Hmmm. I wonder if "fsck -N /dev/sdd1" will do the trick? Can't test
it right now - I've "borrowed" the SATA dock to back up the Mac.


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Does it need fsck? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-10-23 15:32 +0000
  Re: Does it need fsck? Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-10-23 17:30 +0000
  Re: Does it need fsck? Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-23 19:11 +0100
    Re: Does it need fsck? Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2016-10-24 09:05 +0100

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