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How to run fsck to report errors only

Posted on 2012-12-31

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Hi, experts,

I want to run fsck but only report error, not change anything on a hard drive. I tried -N option, but that does not do anything at all, only says what it will check.

Thank you.

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Question by:kerzner

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by:woolmilkporc

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ID: 387329122012-12-31

Try

fsck -n ...

(lowercase "n").

If this is not supported by your fsck try

yes "n" | fsck -r ...

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by:kerzner

ID: 387329902012-12-31

Yes, thank you, I figured it out meanwhile (not a very popular option, I wonder why), but it is comforting to have support.... and ruin anything :)

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