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yellowhat	Posted: Feb 1 2012, 03:55 AM
SLF Member Group: Members Posts: 76 Member No.: 707 Joined: 18-August 11	My box is scientific linux 6.1 x86, and I want to check filesystem's health. Can I execute "fsck" at command line? And please let me know gui tool for checking filesystem. Thanks in advance.
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AndrewSerk	Posted: Feb 1 2012, 03:51 PM
SLF Moderator Group: Moderators Posts: 524 Member No.: 54 Joined: 14-April 11	hi yellowhat, You can run fsck from the command line (see "man fsck") but it is very important not to run a fsck on a mounted filesystem as this will corrupt the data . I suggest you boot a livecd to run fsck from. For a GUI tool, there is palimpsest the disk-utility program. You can not run this tool on a mounted filesystem but it works well from a livecd. Hope this helps,
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yellowhat	Posted: Feb 2 2012, 01:55 AM
SLF Member Group: Members Posts: 76 Member No.: 707 Joined: 18-August 11	AndrewSerk/ Thanks a lot.
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Posted: Feb 2 2012, 03:56 AM

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QUOTE (yellowhat @ Feb 1 2012, 08:55 PM)

AndrewSerk/ Thanks a lot.

Happy to help,

Best of luck

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