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fsck_ufs(1M)		System Administration Commands		  fsck_ufs(1M)

NAME
       fsck_ufs - file system consistency check and interactive repair

SYNOPSIS
       fsck -F ufs [generic-options] [special...]

       fsck -F ufs [generic-options] [-o specific-options] [special...]

DESCRIPTION
       The  fsck  utility audits and interactively repairs inconsistent condi‐
       tions on file systems. A file system to be checked may be specified  by
       giving  the  name of the block or character special device or by giving
       the name of its mount point if a matching entry exists in /etc/vfstab.

       The special parameter represents	 the  character	 special  device,  for
       example,	 /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s7,  on  which	 the  file system resides. The
       character special device, not the block special device should be	 used.
       The  fsck  utility will not work if the block device is mounted, unless
       the file system is error-locked.

       If no special device is specified, all ufs file	systems	 specified  in
       the  vfstab with a fsckdev entry will be checked. If the -p (``preen'')
       option is specified, ufs file systems with an fsckpass  number  greater
       than 1 are checked in parallel. See fsck(1M).

       In  the	case  of  correcting serious inconsistencies, by default, fsck
       asks for confirmation before making a repair and waits for the operator
       to  respond  either yes or no. If the operator does not have write per‐
       mission on the file system, fsck will default to a -n (no  corrections)
       action. See fsck(1M).

       Repairing  some file system inconsistencies can result in loss of data.
       The amount and severity of data loss can be determined from  the	 diag‐
       nostic output.

       The  fsck utility automatically corrects innocuous inconsistencies such
       as unreferenced inodes, too-large link counts in inodes, missing blocks
       in  the free list, blocks appearing in the free list and also in files,
       or incorrect counts in the super block. It displays a message for  each
       inconsistency corrected that identifies the nature of the correction on
       the file system which took place. After successfully correcting a  file
       system, fsck prints the number of files on that file system, the number
       of used and free blocks, and the percentage of fragmentation.

       Inconsistencies checked include:

	 ·  Blocks claimed by more than one inode or the free list.

	 ·  Blocks claimed by an inode or the free list outside the  range  of
	    the file system.

	 ·  Incorrect link counts.

	 ·  Incorrect directory sizes.

	 ·  Bad inode format.

	 ·  Blocks not accounted for anywhere.

	 ·  Directory checks, file pointing to unallocated inode, inode number
	    out of range, and absence of `.' and `..' as the first two entries
	    in each directory.

	 ·  Super  Block  checks: more blocks for inodes than there are in the
	    file system.

	 ·  Bad free block list format.

	 ·  Total free block and/or free inode count incorrect.

       Orphaned files and directories (allocated but unreferenced)  are,  with
       the   operator's	 concurrence,  reconnected  by	placing	 them  in  the
       lost+found directory. The name assigned is the  inode  number.  If  the
       lost+found  directory does not exist, it is created. If there is insuf‐
       ficient space in the lost+found directory, its size is increased.

       An attempt to mount a ufs file system with the -o  nolargefiles	option
       will  fail  if  the file system has ever contained a large file (a file
       whose size is greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte). Invoking  fsck	resets
       the file system state if no large files are present in the file system.
       A successful mount of the file system after invoking fsck indicates the
       absence	of  large  files  in  the  file	 system. An unsuccessful mount
       attempt indicates  the  presence	 of  at	 least	one  large  file.  See
       mount_ufs(1M).

OPTIONS
       The generic-options consist of the following options:

       -m		       Check  but  do  not  repair. This option checks
			       that the file system is suitable for  mounting,
			       returning  the  appropriate exit status. If the
			       file system is ready for	 mounting,  fsck  dis‐
			       plays a message such as:

					ufs	 fsck:	    sanity	check:
					/dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s1 okay

       -n|N		       Assume a no response to all questions asked  by
			       fsck; do not open the file system for writing.

       -V		       Echo the expanded command line, but do not exe‐
			       cute the command. This option may  be  used  to
			       verify and to validate the command line.

       -v		       Enables	verbose output. Might not be supported
			       by  all	filesystem-specific  fsck  implementa‐
			       tions.

       -y|Y		       Assume a yes response to all questions asked by
			       fsck.

       See generic fsck(1M) for the details for specifying special.

       -o specific-options     Specify ufs file system specific options. These
			       options can be any combination of the following
			       separated by commas (with no  intervening  spa‐
			       ces).

			       b=n

				   Use block n as the super block for the file
				   system. Block  32  is  always  one  of  the
				   alternate super blocks. Determine the loca‐
				   tion	 of  other  super  blocks  by  running
				   newfs(1M) with the -Nv options specified.

			       f

				   Force  checking  of file systems regardless
				   of the state of  their  super  block	 clean
				   flag.

			       p

				   Check  and fix the file system non-interac‐
				   tively ("preen"). Exit immediately if there
				   is  a  problem requiring intervention. This
				   option is required to enable parallel  file
				   system checking.

			       w

				   Check writable file systems only.

FILES
       /etc/vfstab     list of default parameters for each file system

ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       ┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
       │      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     │	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   │
       ├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
       │Availability		     │SUNWcsu			   │
       └─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘

SEE ALSO
       clri(1M),  fsck(1M),  fsdb_ufs(1M),  fsirand(1M),  fstyp(1M), mkfs(1M),
       mkfs_ufs(1M),  mount_ufs(1M),  mountall(1M),   newfs(1M),   reboot(1M),
       vfstab(4), attributes(5), largefile(5), ufs(7FS)

WARNINGS
       The  operating  system  buffers	file  system  data.  Running fsck on a
       mounted file system can cause the operating system's buffers to	become
       out  of date with respect to the disk. For this reason, the file system
       should be unmounted when fsck is used. If this is  not  possible,  care
       should  be  taken  that the system is quiescent and that it is rebooted
       immediately after fsck is run. Quite often, however, this will  not  be
       sufficient.  A panic will probably occur if running fsck on a file sys‐
       tem modifies the file system.

NOTES
       It is usually faster to check the character  special  device  than  the
       block special device.

       Running fsck on file systems larger than 2 Gb fails if the user chooses
       to use the block interface to the device:

       fsck /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s?

       rather than the raw (character special) device:

       fsck /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s?

SunOS 5.10			  2 Aug 2005			  fsck_ufs(1M)
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