ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck.ext3 /dev/sda1 e2fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) /dev/sda1: recovering journal Clearing orphaned inode 5357572 (uid=0, gid=0, mode=0100600, size=547) /dev/sda1: clean, 410818/23674880 files, 29577732/47327482 blocks ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fsck.reiserfs /dev/sda1 reiserfs_open: the reiserfs superblock cannot be found on /dev/sda1. Failed to open the filesystem. If the partition table has not been changed, and the partition is valid and it really contains a reiserfs partition, then the superblock is corrupted and you need to run this utility with --rebuild-sb. ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo smartctl -H /dev/sda1 SMART Health Status: OK