How to run a thorough check on a computer drive with `fsck`?

Asked Sep 08 '19 at 11:23

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I have booted a computer from a Ubuntu USB stick and I want to use fsck to make a thorough check of the entire /dev/sdb2 disk. Just running

sudo fsck /dev/sdb2

returns almost immedeately. But I want to check the entire disk. What options to use to do so (and to have verbose information to see the check is still going on)?

Summary:

Thorough check of the harddrive /dev/sdb2
Verbose information
Using fsck (or some similar command which is included in a Ubuntu 18.04 live iso)

asked Sep 08 '19 at 11:23

Alex

You can use -V option to see more verbose information. Check man fsck for more. – Michal Przybylowicz Sep 08 '19 at 11:49
and how to run a 'thorough' check so that the whole disk is checked? – Alex Sep 08 '19 at 11:50
Check this for possible solutions on how to check discs. – Michal Przybylowicz Sep 08 '19 at 11:53
Thanks - I will try all of the ten different possibilities given in that other post. – Alex Sep 08 '19 at 11:55

How to run a thorough check on a computer drive with `fsck`?

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