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From an Ubuntu perspective:

There's a few different ways to do this, but this is the one that I have most luck with. Open a terminal and type

 sudo touch /forcefsck

and then reboot the system.

The program you use that's like chkdsk is e2fsck. It has a ton of options but in order to actually check the disk it needs it to be unmounted or it can hose the file system, which it will warn you of if you try to do it manually. Doing it this way, the disk is checked and cleaned before it is mounted at boot.

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From an Ubuntu perspective:

There's a few different ways to do this, but this is the one that I have most luck with. Open a terminal and type

 sudo touch /forcefsck

and then reboot the system.

The program you use that's like chkdsk is e2fsck. It has a ton of options but in order to actually check the disk it needs it to be unmounted or it can hose the file system, which it will warn you of if you try to do it manually. Doing it this way, the disk is checked and cleaned before it is mounted at boot.

Thanks!

It ran when I re-booted, but there wasn't any feedback on the results. I checked the log files in /var/log/fsck, but they just said "(Nothing has been logged yet.)". Does this mean it ran successfully with no errors/fixes, or is there another log file somewhere with the results of the scan?

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Thanks!

It ran when I re-booted, but there wasn't any feedback on the results. I checked the log files in /var/log/fsck, but they just said "(Nothing has been logged yet.)". Does this mean it ran successfully with no errors/fixes, or is there another log file somewhere with the results of the scan?

That's the only one I'm aware of, so I'd assume it means everything was ok.