yes, it will finish up what it is doing that second and quit per Control-C. also, a kill -HUP fsck.<fs here> should also safely cause it to quit gracefully.

-eric
from the central office of the Technomage Guild, Technical Services Dept.

On Nov 26, 2017, at 5:48 PM, Matthew Crews wrote:


A few days ago I started a fsck run on a large hard drive using the command

$ sudo fsck -vcck /dev/whatever

I wanted to check the disk for errors. Right now it is several days from finishing.

Unfortunately, SRP is planning on a power outage in the next few weeks, and I WILL lose electrical power to the device when it happens.

Is it safe to Ctrl+C fsck, or am I screwed regardless?

See the Arch Wiki for details on the command:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/badblocks

-Matt


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