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I wanted to know how to run the fsck command on a server with write capabilities. The command should run structurally from one hard disk partition to another without any user interaction.

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It depends on the type of filesystem you are using. Ext2/3/4, for example, cannot safely run on a mounted filesystem, so you must either boot into single user mode, or use a boot disk. Other types allow mounted checks in writemode (btrfs, etc.).

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Its Ext3 and on a SATA drive –  Minato Namikaze Aug 6 '11 at 8:29
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