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 -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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