I had a RHEL3 system that was having various I/O errors which I planned to rebuild. For academic purposes I wanted to see if "fsck -n -f -c /dev/hda1" would safely do a filesystem and surface check in ...

The btrfsck command is a filesystem-check command like fsck, but it works with the btrfs file system. First a little bit about btrfs. As the name implies, btrfs uses a B-tree data structure that is ...

This is in referance to this previous thread of mine. They appeared when half the directories on that specific partition went from '*** ***' (eg 'system setup') format to '*. a' or '*~1. a' format ...