How to check HDD's for filesystem error's

[Andy Horn]

When I SSH into my server I get this message:

*** /dev/sdc1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***
*** /dev/sdb1 will be checked for errors at next reboot ***

Yet when I have rebooted I still get the same message, is there a way to check for error's while the server is running, Synaptic package manager doesn't work as it is a 12.04LTS install.

Thanks

Andy

[Ian]

Hi Andy,

This seems to be a feature in 12.04. Try the following:

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sudo touch /forcefsck

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sudo shutdown -r now

Does that help?

Ian.

[Andy Horn]

Hi Ian.

Erm in a word no.

But I fixed by following this link. post 9.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1769477

Ignore this line

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sudo vi /etc/fastab

as it should read:

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sudo vi /etc/fstab

or what I did:

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sudo vim /etc/fstab

Worked like a charm.

Andy

[Ian]

Ah ok. Glad you got it sorted

Ian.