Fsck tips

Warning
The drive you want to check must be unmounted or the check itself may corrupt the filesystem!!

Usage
sudo fsck [options] [device name]

Useful commands
These require sudo.

To list mounted drives: mount To mount everything in /etc/fstab: mount -a To list all recognized drives and partitions: fdisk -l To reboot, forcing fsck on root filesystem: shutdown -rF now To fsck all unmounted filesystems with pass number > 0 in /etc/fstab: fsck -ARM To pretend fsck: fsck -N To make fsck skip mounted filesystems and exit cleanly: fsck -M To fsck a broken filesystem, automatically answering "yes" to prompts: fsck -y