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a tool to check the consistency of and repair a file system for Unix-like operating systems

Fsck ("file system check") is a tool to check the consistency of and repair a file system for and Unix-like operating systems, such as and Mac .

Man page: http://www.manpagez.com/man/8/fsck/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fsck

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How long can fsck take on a 30 TB volume?

In mid-November, a VPS that I am renting from a hosting company stopped responding. When I contacted support, they explained that a power outage in the datacenter caused a forced reboot and fsck. Eventually, I asked why it was taking so long, and…
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If a machine has an unclean shutdown AND the time has expired for a fsck, which message will get printed?

OS is CentOS 5. Generally after an unclean shutdown, the CentOS startup text will display something about a fsck being needed due to an unclean shutdown. (I can't remember the exact text off the top of my head) Also, if you go a certain number of…
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Test EXT3 Filesystem Integrity

Our operations team was trying to shrink an LVM logical volume, and forgot to shrink the partition sitting on top of it first. They got a bunch of errors, and made the mistake of running e2fsck right away to try and fix the disk. Needless to say,…
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what does fsck.ext3 do on a partition that contains a portion of unformatted space?

I always thought fsck operated on the filesystem level only, but recently I came across the following procedure for growing an ext3 partition: https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions_p2. in a nutshell, you delete the partition from…
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After doing an fsck of a partition, the partition is now empty

I'm sorry if the title is misleading however I did not know how to ask the question in a better way. At work I had to install windows on a machine that had debian. I has three partitions one for root, one for home and one for swap. In order to make…
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Recovery mode raid1 centos - how to?

I'm having a problem with fsck. Using cat /proc/mdstat I have this: md0 : active raid1 sda1[3] sdb1[2] 524276 blocks super 1.0 [2/2] [UU] I made a mistake when first using fsck, cos I used fsck /dev/sda1, but I remembered then that I have…
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run fsck on mounted partition

Is there any possibility to run fsck if I have one ext3 partition /dev/sda1 only? File system is in the read-only mode, reboot did not help - automatic fsck failed and manual one is required. I have root access to my VPS console. I can't use live CD…
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