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Using “fsck” to check or repair the file system in Ubuntu

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Nov 24, 2019

If you have been using a Linux distribution, you might have encountered filesystems errors somehow. Filesystems can be identified as a hierarchy of directories (or a directory tree) which determines the way files are stored and organized on a computer system.For example, a given Linux installation can be installed using only the ext1 filesystem instead of using both ext2 and ext3 filesystem types
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