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operating system file system check. The
Unix program that
checks a
file system for internal consistency and bad blocks
etc. and can repair some faults.
fsck is often used after a
crash when the file system has
been left in an inconsistent state, e.g. due to incomplete
substitute for "fuck" and became more main-stream after the
(1998-03-06)