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Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook

You're reading from   Linux Shell Scripting Cookbook Do amazing things with the shell and automate tedious tasks

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2017
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ISBN-13 9781785881985
Length 552 pages
Edition 3rd Edition
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Table of Contents (14) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Shell Something Out FREE CHAPTER 2. Have a Good Command 3. File In, File Out 4. Texting and Driving 5. Tangled Web? Not At All! 6. Repository Management 7. The Backup Plan 8. The Old-Boy Network 9. Put On the Monitors Cap 10. Administration Calls 11. Tracing the Clues 12. Tuning a Linux System 13. Containers, Virtual Machines, and the Cloud

Checking disks and filesystems for errors

Linux filesystems are incredibly robust. Despite that, a filesystem can become corrupted and data can be lost. The sooner you find a problem, the less data loss and corruption you need to worry about.

Getting ready

The standard tool for checking filesystems is fsck. This command is installed on all modern distributions. Note that you'll need to run fsck as root or via a sudo.

How to do it...

Linux will run fsck automatically at boot time if the filesystem has been unchecked for a long time or there is a reason (unsafe reboot after a power glitch) to suspect it's...

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