Sometimes our disk has bad sectors or may have errors like an input-output related error or be in a read-only file system. At that time we can use e2fsck which is a file system check utility to check for bad sectors on the disk or to resolve other errors on the disk.<\/p>\n
However, mostly we use a e2fsck utility when a drive is in a Read-Only file system or when we want to scan our hard disk for bad sectors.<\/p>\n
To run e2fsck in a correct way is necessary, which should be like below:- <\/p>\n
Step 1: It is always recommended to scan a file system in single-user mode. So first go to single-user mode.
Step 2: Unmount the partition on which you would like to run it.<\/p>\n
[root@localhost ~]# umount\u00a0 \/dev\/sda1<\/p>\n
Step 3: After this run the e2fsck utility on the system as below:- <\/p>\n
[root@localhost ~]# e2fsck -y -v -f \/dev\/sda2 <\/p>\n
-y = To auto access yes for all questions.
-v = Verbose mode output
-f = Forcefully<\/p>\n
Once the file system check is completed, again mount the drive and then shutdown and start the Linux machine. That’s all.<\/p>\n
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