anyone uses fsck_y_enable="YES" ?
Jerry McAllister
jerrymc at clunix.cl.msu.edu
Mon Jul 14 06:32:48 PDT 2003
>
> On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> [...]
> >>> Do you guys use this option ?
> >
> >Yes.
>
> Has anyone run into a situation where you'd answer "no" to an fsck
> question? In what circumstances would you not answer "yes"?
>
> I can't remember ever answering "no" to fsck: if you do, you'll still
> have an unstable filesystem and won't be able to use it safely. If you
> answer "yes", the contents may be wrong, but the filesystem itself will
> be stable and usable.
I think the main reason to answer know would be if you wanted to
experiment with the disk as an unmounted devvice to try and figure
out some information - maybe about what went wrong or something -
before fsck cleaned things up. But, in usual practice, you may
just want to use the -y switch.
////jerry
>
> Thoughts?
>
> --
> Steve Coile
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