When the fsck command cannot repair a nonroot filesystem, you should immediatelyrestore all data from tape backup. True or False?
When the fsck command cannot repair a nonroot filesystem, you should immediately
restore all data from tape backup. True or False?
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fsck stands for file system consistency check. It is a command used to check consistency of Linux file systems. It can also repair the corrupted Linux file system. A file system must be inactive when this command repair the file system. It working is similar to CHKDSK command of Microsoft Windows. To run fsck command, you must be a superuser privileges or root.
The syntax is: fsck <options> <filesystem>
Here filesystem can be a device or a partition. The -N option is use for test run, -y option to fix potential problems without getting any prompts, to force the file system check, use the -f option.
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