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A tool used to check the ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems.

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Connection problem with USB3 external storage on Linux (UAS driver problem)

On Ubuntu 15.10, when I want to format using the NTFS file system an external 4TO disk connected by USB3 (on a StarTech USB/eSATA hard disk dock), I have a lot of I/O errors, and the format fails. I tried GParted v 0.19, and GParted on the latest…
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Should I answer yes to "Clone multiply-claimed blocks?" when running e2fsck?

When running e2fsck -cck /dev/mapper/xxx I am prompted with has 487 multiply-claimed block(s), shared with 84 file(s): ... (inode #221446306, mod time Tue Feb 20 19:48:38 2018) ... (inode #221446305, mod time Tue Feb 20 19:48:32 2018) ...…
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Ext4 - How to enable extra sanity, checksums, validations, tests of any kind?

I'm running Ext4 on a harddrive, and to be perfectly honest, I don't really trust the drive because it's old and has a few badblocks. I have nonessential data on the drive, so if it died tomorrow, then no big deal. However, I would like to know…
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Resize2fs keeps asking me to run e2fsck -f

I set-up a server with LVM, and I just recently extended one of my logical volumes from 25TB to 35. root@server:/home/user# df -h /dev/mapper/vg--data-lv--data Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted…
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Does "recovering journal" prove an unclean shutdown/unmount?

Can we confirm the log message "recovering journal" from fsck should be interpreted as indicating the filesystem was not cleanly unmounted / shut down the last time? Or, are there other possible reasons to be aware of? May 03 11:52:34 alan-laptop…
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Can't resize lvm volume "lv_home is in use. e2fsck: Cannot continue, aborting"

I would like to shrink my logical volume for home directory, so that I can extend volume for root. df -h /dev/mapper/vg_mitoscomp-lv_root 50G 33G 15G 70% / /dev/mapper/vg_mitoscomp-lv_home 53G 180M 51G 1% /home lsblk ─sdc2 …
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Run fsck automatically when calling mount from command line

I have a backup script that mounts and unmounts a USB drive. I just noticed that its warning me: EXT3-fs warning: maximal mount count reached, running e2fsck is recommended My question: How can I get it to run e2fsck automatically when the mount…
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ext4 reported as clean by fsck after hard reset: Is that normal?

My root-partition is formatted as ext4-filesystem. I notice that, whenever my machine crashes and I have to hard-reset it, when booting up again and the root filesystem is checked this step takes a bit (like one to two seconds) longer than when…
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Is it possible to run e2fsck in a way that'll give false results?

I have this 6 months old 5TB external hard drive. I started to experience a lot of I/O errors recently, so I backed up my data then used gparted to create a new partition table, a new main partition. Then I ran the following code trying to see if…
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How to resolve e2fsck Superblock problem?

I have a problem like this question How disk became suddenly write protected in spite configuration is read/write? And I used these commands to resolve that umount /dev/sdb1 e2fsck /dev/sdb1 mount /dev/sdb1 but ~# e2fsck /dev/sdb1 e2fsck 1.44.5…
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I have a file I cannot delete after a file mv operation was interrupted

I was moving a file with mv but the operation got interrupted. Now I am left with a file I cannot delete on an external NTFS drive. I was moving it from an ext4. rm file.to.delete rm: cannot remove ‘file.to.delete’: No such file or…
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after fs crash and running fsck, some files were recovered but not place in lost+found?

I had a I/O error on an external hard drive partition sdb4 (its usual mountpoint being /run/media/yan/data). The partition was non responsive, couldn't be accessed and refused to unmount. I did not know what to do but unplug the disk and replug it.…
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e2fsck deletes many inodes, recovers too little data from a disk image. Are there better methods?

I imaged a failing SSD as best I could using ddrescue or dd (it's been too long to recall which). With the resulting .img, I've burnt a disk which is not recognised as mountable. Using e2fsck -fyvC 0 upon the disk, I'm able to subsequently mount it,…
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What is it that e2fsck does not say?

Abstract: E2fsck found no error with the -n option but with -p (preen). It corrected the error but did not give any error message. The error is only reflected via exit code. How to interpret this? I am using an USB hard drive with an Ext2 filesystem…
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e2fsck block bitmaps

What exactly are block bitmaps? Why would I get the following error: The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 1219824640 blocks The physical size of the device is 731447296 blocks Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to…
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