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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 to add a partition to CentOS without losing data on it

we had a CentOS 6.4 server with two RAIDs. One RAID-1 and the other RAID-5 RAID-1 had multiple partitions with OS installed on it. RAID-5 had two partitions with some data on it. In order to replicate a scenario, we had to quash RAID-1 partitions…
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How to fsck a partition that is part of a software Raid that again is part of a LVM volume group?

The faulty partition is /dev/sdb3. from /proc/mdstat: md2 : active raid1 sda3[2] 2896184639 blocks super 1.2 [2/1] [U_] says /etc/fstab: # /dev/md/2 belongs to LVM volume group 'vg0' /dev/vg0/backups /backups ext4 defaults 0…
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server maintenance to prevent fsck failures

once in a while after a reboot I found fsck would fail on OS disk and booting becoming impossible on many of my servers. and then I had to reinstall OS and do data migration from the failed OS disk. would the following measures prevent this from…
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OpenVZ containers will not start after a reboot

vzctl start 192 Dump file /vz/dump/Dump.192 exists, trying to restore from it Restoring container ... Opening delta /vz/private/192/root.hdd/root.hdd Data cluster 1112 beyond EOF, vsec=47137... FATAL Error in ploop_check (check.c:547): Fatal errors…
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Directory index full, is this fsck result OK?

I found these in my /var/log/messages: kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device md2): ext4_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device md2): ext4_dx_add_entry: Directory index full! kernel: EXT4-fs warning (device md2):…
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fsck.vfat auto repair on error

I use Ubuntu 10.04 on an embedded device. I have a CF card of 2GB formatted in FAT32. From time to time, the device is powered off while data is written to the FAT partition. As a result, the partition goes into read-only mode. I would like to know…
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Prevent a fsck at boot on EC2

I'm starting an instance on Amazon EC2, and it does a fsck at boot and restart. The console output at the start is: * Checking root filesystem .../dev/sda1: Adding dirhash hint to filesystem. /dev/sda1 primary superblock features different from…
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Ubuntu server mounted in read-only?

This morning my Ubuntu server suddenly appeared in read-only mode. Google says this can happen after updates. I restarted the server and it booted with fsck errors: Inodes that were parts of a corrupted orphan linked list…
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Strange behavior of fsck

I am using Debian 7 with two HDDs: 500Gb PATA and 750Gb SATA. blkid shows me the following: root@intel:/etc# blkid /dev/sda1: UUID="b6350c6b-5fbd-4e07-9a4b-10b600fbb64c" TYPE="swap" /dev/sda2: UUID="2f852e13-38ee-4b56-a474-d675c22d5f28" TYPE="ext4"…
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can i say "NO" to "Clone multiply-claimed blocks" in fsck?

I need to know if i can still mount the volume when i tell fsck "no" in that question. i dont need to repair all the files in the volume, i just need recover one single file for this event. the volume got some big files that put fsck stuck for…
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Hard disk error

There seems to be something wrong with my hard drive, but I'm not sure what, or how to proceed. The first sign of any problems was this: I tried making a new directory on my server, but when I did so, it hung for like 30 seconds, then gave this…
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Does my server have bad blocks or not?

My server crashed today. It switched the /sda8 device (/home) to read only and the log said "ext3_xattr_block_get: inode 590080: bad block 6" From rescue mode (something my hosting provider offers where the OS is loaded from the network) I ran…
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e2fsck on a low-memory machine: can I get more out of scratch_files or swap?

I am running CentOS 6 on a 32-bit machine with 1 GB of RAM. I have a 1TB external HDD that I am trying to run e2fsck on. It runs for about an hour and a half and then fails with Error storing directory block information (inode=45206324, block=0,…
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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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Recover ext3 files from hard disk with bad sector

I have a folder of about 5GB that suddenly disappeared. When I checked its hard disk, I found out it has bad sector for about 2-3MB on this folder. Maybe it is on the folder's pointer. The partition is EXT3 , and operating system is Debian. I tried…
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