Cannot run fsck

[Hillbilly]

I have searched through the forums and found no answer to my question. I am running FC7 x86_64 and I have a weird issue. I have both the e2fsprogs and dosfsutils installed which should provide me with fsck and dosfsck. I am familiar with running fsck and dosfsck on my Ubuntu systems and have never had this particular problem. I cannot run fsck from the command line. When I type the command it says it cannot find it. I have done a “which” and it is not found, however, it is installed (or at least the packages that contain it are). I have run this in sudo form, as my regular user, and as root. The command can not be found, however, I the man page is available. Any ideas?

[Seve]

Hello:
I expect you will find fsck located in
/sbin/
try
updateddb
and
locate fsck
Then to run fsck you need to have full root access
su - <---- the dash is important
http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#root

Seve

[Hillbilly]

That is what I said. I did su, then put in password and got root prompt. Then I tried to run it without success. Then, I did a which and it said it did not find fsck in any folders.

[Seve]

Hello:

Originally Posted by Hillbilly

That is what I said. I did su, then put in password and got root prompt. Then I tried to run it without success. Then, I did a which and it said it did not find fsck in any folders.

Re-read the previous response again.
i.e.

Then to run fsck you need to have full root access
su - <---- the dash is important
http://www.fedorafaq.org/basics/#root

Unless you somehow managed to remove it from you installation?

PHP Code:

# locate fsck
/.autofsck
/sbin/dosfsck
/sbin/e2fsck
/sbin/fsck
/sbin/fsck.cramfs
/sbin/fsck.ext2
/sbin/fsck.ext3
/sbin/fsck.jfs
/sbin/fsck.msdos
/sbin/fsck.vfat
/sbin/fsck.xfs
/sbin/jfs_fsck
/sbin/jfs_fscklog
/usr/share/man/man5/e2fsck.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/dosfsck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/e2fsck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsck.ext2.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsck.ext3.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsck.jfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsck.vfat.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/fsck.xfs.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/jfs_fsck.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/jfs_fscklog.8.gz 


PHP Code:

# which fsck
/sbin/fsck 


PHP Code:

# uname -a
Linux seve 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 14:56:37 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 


Seve

[Iron_Mike]

Originally Posted by Hillbilly

That is what I said. I did su, then put in password and got root prompt. Then I tried to run it without success. Then, I did a which and it said it did not find fsck in any folders.

You need to use su - (su dash) to use the root environment. Be warned do not run fsck on a mounted file system.

[Hillbilly]

I understand what you are saying now. What confuses me is that I never had to do that when I was running Ubuntu. I could run fsck as a standard user. Granted, fsck probably is a tool that should be kept to root use or at least not given to every user. But I am dealing with a home computer where I am the only user. When running Ubuntu I could run fsck as regular user or if nothing else, I could run it as root just by a su. It would just be nice if which would tell me that the file was in /sbin.