Testing ext4 and auto fix

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 01:43:56 UTC 2023


Hey there,

Jerry Geis wrote:
>Little Girl wrote:

>> It seems that /forcefsck no longer works, but there's an
>> alternative:
>>
>> https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2476474
>
>Very interesting - had not come across that - thanks
>That is why it was doing nothing.

I didn't know about it, either.

>how do I simulate with an error that makes the console prompt ?
>so I know for sure anything I change is indeed a fix to just repair
>the filesystem.

I found several ways to simulate an error by doing this search on
Google: ubuntu simulate file system error

I'm hesitant to post them here because they seem risky, so proceed at
your own risk and I'd strongly recommend not doing this test on a
production machine.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.




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