Chris Bannister wrote: > On 29/01/08 19:53, London School of Puppetry wrote: > >> Can someone tell me the code for doing a manual fsck check? > > Unless you need it to do something specific you just need to run > > fsck /dev/device_name > > as root or via sudo (replacing /dev/device_name with the real device of > course)
fsck will complain if the device is mounted. It will continue if you let it but it warns that it may cause severe file system damage. I suggest you boot from a live CD and then run fsck from there. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
