Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 09:31:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: scoile@nandomedia.com (Steve Coile) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: anyone uses fsck_y_enable="YES" ? Message-ID: <200307141331.h6EDVKwT017673@clunix.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0307140737540.4827-100000@localhost.localdomain> from "Steve Coile" at Jul 14, 2003 07:40:56 AM
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> > 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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