File System errors

[Ross Penner]

On 5/15/07, Roland Smith <rsmith at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> 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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Thanks for everybodies help. I restarted in single user mode which
allowed me to do the check manually. I'll probably just let the
background check go if it happens again.