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I started an fsck locally from tty1 on my Linux server and it seems to take forever. Would I have thought about this before or known I would have run a screen fsck.

Is there any way to monitor tty1 via SSH or see the output from the fsck process running? I don't need to interact, just see how it's going.

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If tty1 is the first virtual console on a Linux system, you can view its contents via /dev/vcs1:

cat /dev/vcs1

(as root).

(Thanks to Sato Katsura for pointing out that this is Linux-specific!)

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