/dev/sdc should be checked for errors

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Can anyone help me troubleshoot this? I tried looking online but for some reason not a lot is coming up, as if it's a big secret or something.

Every time I connect to it I see "/dev/sdc should be checked for errors" and below that (not sure if this is related) it says ***** System restart required *****

I did not set this server up but what I do know is /dev/sdc is an iSCSI connection to a RAID volume on a Promise VessRAID 1840i.

Are there ways to test the volume w/out unmounting the filesystem or effecting user's access to the data on it? If so please explain what needs to be done.

Thanks!

http://askubuntu.com/questions/14928/how-to-check-a-mounted-filesystem-for-errors-in-a-reliable-way?rq=1 — Hannu, Oct 17 '14 at 17:17
That sounds like it's coming from fsck so you should probably unmount it and check it out. tune2fs is your friend. — ppetraki, Oct 17 '14 at 18:17
Possible duplicate of How to check a mounted filesystem for errors in a reliable way — sudodus, Sep 27 '19 at 08:21

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 17 '15 at 00:43

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You'll need to unmount the drive to check the file system for errors. You can't do it while the filesystem is live.

Ensure FSCKFIX=yes is present in /etc/default/rcS (it's no by default).
Run touch /forcefsck, and reboot the system.
Revert your changes to rcS once fsck is complete.

answered Jul 17 '15 at 00:43

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if the filesystem that should be checked is not the root filesystem then also set the fsck order in /etc/fstab 2 for all the partitions that aren't the root filesystem that you want to be checked. – WhiteKnight Mar 20 '20 at 11:48

/dev/sdc should be checked for errors

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