1) e2fsck (which is what fsck.ext[234] is hard linked to) is designed
to be safe when getting interrupted by ^C
2) The all kernel code uses the same address space. So if there is a
wild pointer in the Nvidia driver scribbles on random kernel memory,
literally anything can happen. There is a r
Thank you for the information.
I was thinking, that I have destroyed the extents and other features of the
ext4 file system by using a tool that is not aware of the special ext4
features, leading to filesystem coruption.
What happens, if I hit CTRL-C during fsck? Can that leave the filesystem in
You're jumping to conclusions here that the damage was caused by the
lack of "-t ext4" to fsck. #1, the fsck program will determine the file
system type based on the file system type found in /etc/fstab. So if
the /etc/fstab file indicates that you were using ext4, then it wlil do
the equivalent
It should be necessary to type "yes" to continue. Just "y" or hitting
enter should not not do it and abort the command.
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Title:
fsck should do so