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diablo75
March 9th, 2009, 02:45 AM
I'm having some really strange problems with my computer today and want to check the hard drive for errors after booting from a Live CD. Is this possible?

taurus
March 9th, 2009, 03:00 AM
You mean running fsck.


sudo fsck /dev/sda1
If /dev/sda1 is the ext3 filesystem you want to check.