Question about fsck in HP-UX (UNIX)

[Broncho]

I need some help and I'm hoping someone out there has the answer. I've got a system up here at work that I help maintain. It is running HP-UX 10.20. Unfortunately the root disc we were using crashed sometime in the past week (i.e the drive is dead as far as I can tell). I'm trying to get a couple of our disks remounted in a previous install of the operating system we had on another drive. When I go into SAM it says I need to run fsck on the drives before they will be mounted. I know fsck checks the file system and repairs it, but does it delete any files or format the disc? I can't find the most recent back up of either drive so I want to make sure that I won't kill the data by running fsck. I would appreciate any help. Thanks!!

 

[n0cmonkey]

It doesnt format and shouldnt delete any good data. Check out the man page (you can view many manpages at openbsd.org's online manpage thingy, or several other places online).

 

[Broncho]

Thanks n0cmonkey. I read the man page in the operating system (typed man fsck at the command prompt) and it didn't sound like it would do anything destructive, but I wanted to doublecheck with someone else before I did it. Since I'm only in the lab right now to sell off the equipment I didn't have anyone around here to ask and I knew that I could find some help here. Thanks again!

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