Comment 6 for bug 443080

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Theodore Ts'o (tytso) wrote : Re: fsck hangs during forced check at boot

Yeah, it shouldn't where you run the command, as long as it's a root shell. (or prefix it with "sudo" if you don't have a root shell).

If the dd command also hangs, it would be good to check out /var/log/syslog or the output of the "dmesg" command to see if there are any useful messages printed by disk's device driver.