From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
Cc: util-linux@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: fsck needs /dev in path to check an ext4 partition
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 21:15:02 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4930f03e-dbd0-7a2f-4b56-9f7cef88d9d2@physik.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5483a74b-106e-1c6c-0265-55ed960826d8@jguk.org>
Hello Jonny!
On 1/15/21 9:06 PM, Jonny Grant wrote:
> Apologies I am not using 2.36.1 yet. I'm on latest Ubuntu LTS, but it's using 2.34
>
> I noticed fsck only works if I write as "/dev/sdb1" not just "sdb1" I was in /dev/ as
> root, so it shouldn't need long path?
>
> These work as expected when called from /dev/ as user root
>
> # fsck.ext4 sdb1
> # fsck.ext4 /dev/sdb1
>
> This does not work:
> # fsck sdb1
That's because it must be:
# fsck.ext4 ./sdb1
Filenames are expanded by your shell in this case, not by the fsck utilities.
Adrian
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-15 20:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-15 20:06 fsck needs /dev in path to check an ext4 partition Jonny Grant
2021-01-15 20:15 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz [this message]
2021-01-15 21:35 ` Jonny Grant
2021-01-15 21:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-01-15 22:10 ` John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
2021-01-15 22:56 ` Jonny Grant
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