Re: Two newbie's question

[Mitchell Gil Maltenfort]

his is exactly what I do. However, one of the shutdown messages,
>immediately before "System halted" is
>
>On the next boot fsck will be FORCED.
>
>Sound *as if* something is wrong although next boot-up is always OK. Is
>there anything wrong or am I being paranoid??


Nothing is wrong.  I don't know where this is configured, but your system is
keeping a count of how many times it was booted up between using 'fsck' to
check the partitions.  Once a certain count is reached, it forces 'fsck' to
be called (as opposed to 'fsck' being a user option normally) to perform the
Linux equivalent of 'scandisk'.