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Safest way to run ext4 fsck on external drive

I have an external drive formatted in ext4 that throws this error message when is plugged in EXT4-fs (sdd2): error count: 8 initial error at 1366215273 last error at 1366215527,it generally works just ...
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Significant difference in speed between fsck using ext3 and ext4 on Debian Squeeze

Recently I installed Debian Squeeze, first using ext3 and then again using ext4 on the same machine. The automatic fsck done after a certain number of mounts is much faster using ext4 (about 1 min) ...
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What does fsck -p (preen) do on ext4?

I was reading a blog post about filesystem repair and the author posted a good question… fsck -p is supposed to fix minor errors automatically without human intervention. But what exactly will it fix ...
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Is there any difference between e2fsck and e4fsck on CentOS / RHEL systems?

ext4.wiki.kernel.org makes it sound like e2fsck was simply renamed to e4fsck so that e4fsprogs and e2fsprogs could coexist without overlapping. However, there is no mention of any difference in the ...
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How can I fsck a partition when the device reads as busy (but has been confirmed otherwise)?

I'm attempting to run fsck -p /dev/sda5 to repair errors on an ext4 partition, however the command outputs fsck from util-linux-ng 2.17.2 fsck.ext4: Device or resource busy while trying to open ...