Fsck

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Check for filesystem errors, and try to repair them.

Usage

Similar to mount, fsck has different tools for different filesystems.
For example fsck.btrfs, fsck.fat, fsck.msdos etc.

fsck -y /dev/sdb  # auto-repair all detected errors on /dev/sdb