File System errors

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Tue May 15 18:59:22 UTC 2007


On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:15:06PM -0600, Ross Penner wrote:
>  I recently had my system freeze so I had to manually restart it. I was
>  worried that there would be some problems with the filesystem so I
>  looked into the matter and discovered the utility fsck. I ran this as
>  root and I got the following:

You normally don't have to do this manually. If a filesystem isn't
cleanly unmounted, it is automatically checked (in the background if
possible, so it might take a while) on the next boot. 

And in that case fsck won't bother you unless it runs into problems it
can't solve.

Roland
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