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Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem



Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:29:27AM +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote:
>   
>
> e2fsck [-y] /dev/sdc5
>
> [The optional -y answers "yes" to the prompts saying "Fix.[y/n] 
>
> e2fsck -a attempts an automatic fix of the commonest errors but is conservative and makes minimal
> changes. If it fails / there's more than one thing wrong, it will bail out and ask for a manual fix, in
> my experience anyway.
>   
Thanks.
> If you don't unmount it, e2fsck will complain. If need be, boot from a rescue disk to do so 
> - but I'm assuming that it's not the root (/) filesystem, or you wouldn't have got this far.
>   
It will complain, but will it impede its `functioning'? I will probably
try with a rescue disk, effectively. What could have caused such errors
if I did not mistreat my computer these days?

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