On 12/08/2021 18:03, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 12/08/2021 15:03, Bev Nicolson wrote:
Oh yes I can. Figured it out. Ran a fsck, which I expected to take hours. Nothing. All fine.
Well done! :-)
OK, if it was suspiciously short, it could be that it assumed that disk was OK and didn't really check (if I recall, some versions of fdisk check for a flag that says "there's something wrong" and if it's not set, don't do anything.
If you're using fsck, I'm not aware of a way of overriding this behaviour. If you know what type of filesystem that partition is using, you can use a varaint of fsck instead. E.g you can use fsck.ext3 or fsck.ext4 if you're using ext3 or ext4 file system respectively.
Fdisk said it only had sda1 ?? Not sure where to go with that other than using the live disk for several hours. Would that be your assessment?
Bev