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20.2. Checking the Hard Disk for errors
Checking the hard disk for errors on your primary drive is very, very rarely required in GNU/Linux, most checking is automated on start-up if it is required. If you do need to check the hard disk for errors you will first need to unmount it. Then use the file system checker, fsck .
fsck.file_system_type
If you had an ext3 file-system then it would be:
fsck.ext3
Also try
You can also try using:
fsck -t file_system_type
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