fsck tool for UDF filesysyem in 14.04

Question

Is there a tool to make fsck check an UDF file system on portable hard drive? I have the udftools package installed but there is no tool to check the UDF filesystem in it.

Answer 1

Some udftools will have a udffsck. That would be the better approach but the upstream project is dead so unlikely Ubuntu will ever have it.

You can try fsck for "udfs" like this...

sudo su
fsck -F udfs /dev/{device} {device-name}

• From man fsck: " fs-specific-options. Options which are not understood by fsck are passed to the filesystem-specific checker. These arguments must not take arguments, as there is no way for fsck to be able to properly guess which arguments take options and which don't." If it works
• {device} and {device-name} should be changed to the device and name used for your portable hard drive
• you probably will need to do this on a root prompt so sudo su 1st. Be careful when using the # prompt.

Otherwise you will not be able to do this...