From: mccauleyba@vms1.bham.ac.uk (Brian McCauley) Subject: Re: e2fsck problems Date: 28 Jul 1993 13:07:09 GMT
In article <CAu690.4Dw@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, jeg7e@livia.acs.Virginia.EDU (Jon Gefaell) writes:
> Obviously (?) something isn't setting the fs clean bit. Any ideas?
Get bootutils (from the usual ftp sites). On tsx-11 I think it's in
sources/usr.bin.
>
> Also, I've no man page for e2fsck, so I had to dink around to find that
> apparently -av are good switches if you want it (e2fsck) to actually
> fix anything... Is this right?
-av fixes all errors verbosely. Read the following man page and
if you'd like to have you own copy just get a new set of ext2 utils.
E2FSCK(8) E2FSCK(8)
NAME
e2fsck - check a Linux second extended file system
SYNOPSIS
e2fsck [ -acdflmrstv ] [ -b filename ] device
DESCRIPTION
e2fsck is used to check a Linux second extended file sys-
tem.
device is the special file corresponding to the device
(e.g /dev/hdXX).
OPTIONS
-a Automatically repair the file system without any
questions (use this option with caution).
-b filename
Read the bad blocks list from filename.
-c Check the file system for bad blocks.
-d Print debugging output (useless unless you want to
find a bug in e2fsck ).
-f Force checking even if the file system seems clean.
-l List all the file names in the file system.
-m Checks that the device is not mounted.
-r Interactively repair the file system (ask for con-
firmations).
-s List the super block before checking the file sys-
tem.
-t Check the file system for bad blocks.
-v Verbose mode.
AUTHOR
e2fsck is based on efsck(8) which is based itself on
fsck(8) written by Linus Torvalds <tor-
valds@cs.helsinki.fi> for the minix file system.
Remy Card <card@masi.ibp.fr> has adapted it for the second
extended file system and is maintaining it.
Wayne Davison <davison@borland.com> has contributed lots
of nice features.
BUGS
The lost+found management has not been tested.
e2fsck cannot repair corrupted super block or block
descriptors yet.
Please report other bugs to the author.
Version 0.3 Apr 1993 1
E2FSCK(8) E2FSCK(8)
AVAILABILITY
e2fsck is available for anonymous ftp from ftp.ibp.fr
(132.227.60.2) in /pub/linux/BETA/ext2fs.
SEE ALSO
mke2fs(8)
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