Force a disk check?

[Nick Wilson]

Hi
I've managed to shutdown improperly and the system hasn't automatically checked itself. How can I force a disk check?

Cheers

[thedexman]

Use 'fsck'. Read its man page.

Example: fsck -AR, will read /etc/fstab and try to check all of the partitions listed there, skipping the root directory. Beware that you should NOT run fsck on any mounted filesystem.

[camelrider]

You can shutdown using the -F switch

"shutdown -F now" (as root)

to force fsck on reboot.


<edit> That way you will include / in the fsck.

[ 16 November 2001: Message edited by: camelrider ]