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Fun with fsck on Fedora – avoiding mounted partitions and handling LUKS encrypted ones

I run Fedora on a few of my machines, and inevitably over the course of time the filesystem will need to be repaired because of orphaned inodes, wrong free byte counts, etc. Typically when EXT4 errors are detected during boot, Fedora will detect this and offer to drop you into “Emergency mode” or continue. example: […]

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