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[[!meta title="Checking the file system of the Persistent Storage"]]
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In rare occasions, you might have to perform a file system check to repair a broken Persistent Storage.
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Unlock the Persistent Storage
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When starting Tails, [[set up an administration password|doc/first_steps/welcome_screen/administration_password]].
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Choose **Applications** ▸ **Utilities** ▸ **Disks** to open the *Disks* utility.
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In the left pane, click on the device corresponding to your Tails USB stick.
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In the right pane, click on the partition labeled as <span class="guilabel">TailsData LUKS</span>.
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Click on [[!img lib/network-wireless-encrypted.png alt="Unlock" class="symbolic" link="no"]]</span> to unlock the Persistent Storage. Enter the passphrase of the Persistent Storage and click **Unlock** again.
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In the confirmation dialog, enter your administration password and click <span class="guilabel">Authenticate</span>.
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Click on the <span class="guilabel">TailsData Ext4</span> partition that appears below the <span class="guilabel">TailsData LUKS</span> partition.
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Identify the device name of your Persistent Storage. The device name appears below the list of volumes. It should look like `/dev/mapper/luks-xxxxxxxx`.
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Triple-click to select it and press **Ctrl+C** to
copy it to the clipboard.
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Check the file system using the terminal
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1. Choose
<span class="menuchoice">
<span class="guimenu">Applications</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guisubmenu">System Tools</span>&nbsp;▸
<span class="guimenuitem">Root Terminal</span></span>
and enter your administration password to open a root terminal.
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In the terminal, execute the following command. Replace <span class="command-placeholder">device</span> with the device name found in step 8:
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<p class="command-template">fsck -y <span class="command-placeholder">device</span></p>
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To do so, you can type <code>fsck -y&nbsp;</code> and press
**Shift+Ctrl+V** to paste the device name from the
clipboard.
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If the file system is free of errors, the last line from the output of `fsck` starts with `TailsData: clean`.
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If the file system has errors, `fsck` tries to
fix them automatically. After it finishes, you can try executing the same
command again to check if all errors are solved.
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