Documentation Home > man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands > System Administration Commands > F > fsck(1M)
fsck- check and repair file systems
fsck [-F FSType] [-n| N| y| Y] [-V] [-o FSType-specific-options] [special...]
special represents the character special device on which the file system resides, for example, /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s7. Note: the character special device, not the block special device, should be used. fsck will not work on a block device if it is mounted.
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of fsck when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte (231 bytes).
clri(1M), fsck_cachefs(1M), fsck_ufs(1M), fsdb_ufs(1M), fsirand(1M), fstyp(1M), mkfs(1M), mkfs_ufs(1M), mountall(1M), newfs(1M), reboot( 1M), fs_ufs(4), vfstab(4), attributes(5), largefile(5)
Starting with Solaris 9, fsck manages extended attribute data on the disk. (See fsattr(5) for a description of extended file attributes.) A file system with extended attributes can be mounted on versions of Solaris that are not attribute-aware (versions prior to Solaris 9), but the attributes will not be accessible and fsck will strip them from the files and place them in lost+found. Once the attributes have been stripped, the file system is completely stable on versions of Solaris that are attribute-aware, but would be considered corrupted on attribute-aware versions. In the latter circumstance, run the attribute-aware fsck to stabilize the file system before using it in an attribute-aware environment.
SunOS 5.9 Last Revised 07 Aug 2001
Documentation Home > man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands > System Administration Commands > F > fsck(1M)
fsck- check and repair file systems
fsck [-F FSType] [-n| N| y| Y] [-V] [-o FSType-specific-options] [special...]
special represents the character special device on which the file system resides, for example, /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s7. Note: the character special device, not the block special device, should be used. fsck will not work on a block device if it is mounted.
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of fsck when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte (231 bytes).
clri(1M), fsck_cachefs(1M), fsck_ufs(1M), fsdb_ufs(1M), fsirand(1M), fstyp(1M), mkfs(1M), mkfs_ufs(1M), mountall(1M), newfs(1M), reboot( 1M), fs_ufs(4), vfstab(
4), attributes(5), largefile(5)
Starting with Solaris 9, fsck manages extended attribute data on the disk. (See fsattr(5) for a description of extended file attributes.) A file system with extended attributes can be mounted on versions of Solaris that are not attribute-aware (versions prior to Solaris 9), but the attributes will not be accessible and fsck will strip them from the files and place them in lost+found. Once the attributes have been stripped, the file system is completely stable on versions of Solaris that are attribute-aware, but would be considered corrupted on attribute-aware versions. In the latter circumstance, run the attribute-aware fsck to stabilize the file system before using it in an attribute-aware environment.
SunOS 5.9 Last Revised 07 Aug 2001