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Disk is /dev/sda1, filesystem is ext3.


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If I start fsck using the command fsck –p –c /dev/sda1
Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*is it normal that when I do aÂ* ps –ef
| grep fsckÂ* I get 2 running processes? :


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rootÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â* 2658Â* 2586Â* 0
10:41 pts/0Â*Â*Â* 00:00:00 fsck -p -c /dev/sda1


rootÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â* 2659Â* 2658Â* 0
10:41 pts/0Â*Â*Â* 00:00:00 fsck.ext3 -p -c /dev/sda1


rootÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â* 2804Â* 2743Â* 0
10:56 pts/1Â*Â*Â* 00:00:00 grep -i fsck


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Thanks.







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05.10.2010 17:00, Maxime Alarie:

> If I start fsck using the command fsck -p -c /dev/sda1 is it normal
> that when I do a ps -ef | grep fsck I get 2 running processes? :

Yes, that's normal.

> root 2658 2586 0 10:41 pts/0 00:00:00 fsck -p -c /dev/sda1
>
> root 2659 2658 0 10:41 pts/0 00:00:00 fsck.ext3 -p -c
> /dev/sda1
>
> root 2804 2743 0 10:56 pts/1 00:00:00 grep -i fsck

fsck doesn't do any file-system checking itself. What it essentially
does is determine the type of the target file-system and launch the
appropriate fsck.fstype binary (fsck.ext3 in your case) that actually
does the work.

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On 5 October 2010 16:00, Maxime Alarie <malarie@processia.com> wrote:
> Good day,
>

Greetings!

> If I start fsck using the command fsck –p –c /dev/sda1 Â*Â*Â*Â*Â*is it normal
> that when I do aÂ* ps –ef | grep fsckÂ* I get 2 running processes? :
>

Yes.

> rootÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â* 2658Â* 2586Â* 0 10:41 pts/0Â*Â*Â* 00:00:00 fsck -p -c /dev/sda1
>

This is fsck.

> rootÂ*Â*Â*Â*Â* 2659Â* 2658Â* 0 10:41 pts/0Â*Â*Â* 00:00:00 fsck.ext3 -p -c /dev/sda1
>

This is fsck.ext3 - a separate program. Note that the parent process
ID of this one (2658) is the ID of the fsck process. So you can see
that you ran fsck, and then fsck spawned fsck.ext3 which does the
actual leg-work of checking your (in this case) ext3 partition. There
are others like fsck.msdos, fsck.vfat, fsck.ext4 and so on, for other
partition types.

Cheers,
Al.

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-----Original Message-----
From: ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Alan Pope
Sent: 05 October 2010 11:20
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: fsck question

On 5 October 2010 16:00, Maxime Alarie <malarie@processia.com> wrote:
> Good day,
>

Greetings!

> If I start fsck using the command fsck -p -c /dev/sda1 *****is it normal
> that when I do a* ps -ef | grep fsck* I get 2 running processes? :
>

Yes.

> root***** 2658* 2586* 0 10:41 pts/0*** 00:00:00 fsck -p -c /dev/sda1
>

This is fsck.

> root***** 2659* 2658* 0 10:41 pts/0*** 00:00:00 fsck.ext3 -p -c /dev/sda1
>

This is fsck.ext3 - a separate program. Note that the parent process
ID of this one (2658) is the ID of the fsck process. So you can see
that you ran fsck, and then fsck spawned fsck.ext3 which does the
actual leg-work of checking your (in this case) ext3 partition. There
are others like fsck.msdos, fsck.vfat, fsck.ext4 and so on, for other
partition types.

Cheers,
Al.

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That's what I was thinking, but was not sure.

Thanks a lot.

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