help with FSCK
 

hi there,
i am having an usual newbie problem and just don`t understand the man page..i am trying to make a disk check, actually scandisk that we know on windows. i read fsck would do the same on linux..but i just can not get how to? as i said, i just don`t understand the man page

mount the drive? dev hda? which parameters?
i hope someone might help..thanks a lot

Do the following:
This should check the first partition and automatically repair errors.
You might not be able to check all partitions on a running system but you can boot into a single-user mode and then check the partitions as shown above.

thanks for your reply,

for the sake of the forums, i am giving a feedback here
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to check which partitions i have, i used the command

just as you said, i have unmounted the drive,fsck'd it and again mounted the drive but it was only possible for hda3. for the other i switched to single-user mode. I am using Suse, the command was (is it linux standart?)

for the newbies who would wanna know, numbers are runlevels, if you want to go back to KDE type init 5, init 6 would restart. who -r gives the current running level.

Anyway on runlevel 1 i have repeatet the same above and it has fixed my problem..again thanks a lot.

Hi,

For system maintenance with a check and repair for a Linux file system I like to always pass the single command on a re-boot. I have a stanza in my 'lilo.conf' for just that. You will be certain not to have any problems with repair in a single user mode.

A new user should 'man fsck' to understand the command.