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Fixing trashed filesystems

If you somehow trash your filesystems, you can run e2fsck (if you use the ext2fs filesystem type, that is) to correct any damaged data on the filesystems from floppy. Other filesystem types use different forms of the e2fsck command; see Section 4.8 for details.

When checking your filesystems from floppy, it's best for the filesystems to not be mounted.


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