January 2016
Beginner
326 pages
9h 5m
English
In this recipe, we will learn how to check the consistency and optionally repair CentOS 7 filesystems. Filesystem inconsistencies are rare events and filesystem checks normally are running automatically at boot time. But system administrators should also know how to run such tests manually, if they believe there is a problem with the filesystem.
To complete this recipe, you will require a working installation of the CentOS 7 operating system with root privileges. We will use virtual block devices instead of real disk devices because we cannot apply any file system check on a mounted disk. Therefore, you should have applied the Formatting and mounting a filesystem recipe and created a 1 gigabyte virtual block ...