What would the ideal way be to repair a problematic /home/user/MyDocs partition if you have broken the USB porto on your N900?

I did
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sudo umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
sudo fdisk -af /dev/mmcblk0p1
sudo fdisk -r /dev/mmcblk0p1
sudo reboot
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woops, I mean (fsck not fdisk!)

sudo umount /dev/mmcblk0p1
sudo fsck -af /dev/mmcblk0p1
sudo fsck -r /dev/mmcblk0p1
sudo reboot

Curious if dosfsck does anything more, with my old zaurus I remember using e2fsck for ext2 and it being more powerful than straight fsck if my ext2 formatted SD card got hosed by a broken transfer or something

This did the trick on todays problem but I would like to know if there are further fsck or dosfsck tricks to clean out a file system when I cant use another machine for whatever reason. I know I have had better results with the Ubuntu disk utility than either my laptops fsck or gparted.