Power outage now my server asks for fck, what to do?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 4 Jan 2021 17:19:56 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,  not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> On 04/01/2021 14:43, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Jan 2021 14:05:15 +0100, Bo Berglund wrote:
> >> What can I do now?
> >> When I type help I get output showing a number of commands which do
> >> not include the fck command...
> > The command isn't named "fck" it's name is "fsck".
> 
> Yeah... What the fsck! :)
> 
> 
> > Run
> >
> > fsck -y /dev/sda1
> 
> That's both usually THE solution (and the OP confirmed it worked for
> them) and a very risky one (since you're giving it a blank card to do
> whatever it feels necessary and you just have to hope that doesn't
> result in a broken environment - which, if the system doesn't boot, to
> start with, it already is).
> 
> :)
> 
> I've used that more than I would have wanted to... And so far it has
> always worked for me as well.

e[234]fs seems to be a generally fairly robust file system.

The OP should consider getting a UPS (at least) and possibly think about 
implement a software RAID mirror set.  With a good UPS and the proper UPS 
deamon software, the system should be able to manage a clean shutdown in the 
event of a power failure.

> 
> 
> Gilles
> 
> 
> 
> 

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