A few days ago I was investigating about some software failure occurred on a server running CentOs, and I suspected a corrupted hard drive (the server is equipped with a SSD disk that does not support S.M.A.R.T.): I wrote these few notes to explain the procedures followed.
To start I have forced the fsck on the next reboot. In order to force your system to run fsck on your file systems during the next reboot you need to create a file called forcefsck in the root folder.
