When you cannot—such as when the file system is your root (/) file system—it is possible to force a check using the --force option as shown below.

For this example I use Linux kernel version 2.2.17. The 2.4.0-test8 kernel that I tried did not size the RAM disk for the root file system properly, leading to a ``not enough memory'' message at boot ...

A system is simply defined as a combination of inherently connected parts. A Linux system (only considering software in this article) is a combination of a Linux kernel and other components which make ...

I love Linux, but I don't understand the directory structure of the file system. It seems to me that this is one area where Windows has Linux beat.