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Re: "Run fsck manually"..?

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On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 01:41:54AM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 02, 2021 at 07:13:16PM -0500, hobie of RMN wrote:
> > He enters "fsck" or "fsck /dev/sda1", and in a short while gets fsck
> > identifying it's version, and nothing else.
> 
> There can be issues trying to run fsck on a mounted filesystem. What
> happens if you do:
> 
> # touch /forcefsck

Oh, sorry, I missed your mention of (initramfs) prompt. So your
filesystem is too damaged to allow boot to complete and you won't be
able to do that "touch /forcefsck" thing.

If fsck is just printing its version it may think it doesn't need to
be run. You can force it to do a check/repair with "-f", so:

(initramfs) fsck.ext4 -vf /dev/sda1

If it find things that it wants to fix it will ask yuo and you'll
have to press 'y' each time. If you're certain that you always want
to answer 'y' then you can ctrl-c that and try again with -y:

(initramfs) fsck.ext4 -yvf /dev/sda1

If you want to see what it would do without it actually doing it you
can use -n instead of -y.

Cheers,
Andy

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"Run fsck manually"..? "hobie of RMN" <hobie@rumormillnews.com> - 2021-02-03 01:20 +0100
  Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Jessica Litwin <jessica@litw.in> - 2021-02-03 01:20 +0100
    Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-02-03 01:30 +0100
      Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Jeremy Andrews <thejeremy.net@gmail.com> - 2021-02-03 02:20 +0100
        Re: "Run fsck manually"..? "hobie of RMN" <hobie@rumormillnews.com> - 2021-02-03 02:50 +0100
  Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-02-03 02:50 +0100
    Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2021-02-03 03:40 +0100
      [SOLVED} Re: "Run fsck manually"..? "hobie of RMN" <hobie@rumormillnews.com> - 2021-02-03 05:50 +0100
    Re: "Run fsck manually"..? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-02-03 05:10 +0100
      Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2021-02-03 09:40 +0100
      Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-02-03 13:40 +0100
        Re: "Run fsck manually"..? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-02-03 17:10 +0100
          Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-02-03 17:30 +0100
            Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2021-02-03 17:40 +0100
            Re: "Run fsck manually"..? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-02-03 21:10 +0100
              Re: "Run fsck manually"..? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2021-02-03 22:00 +0100
                Re: "Run fsck manually"..? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-02-04 02:10 +0100

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