Once upon a time, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) <stymar@xxxxxxxxxx> said: > When Linux boots after a power failure or other > hard stop, the boot process detects that the file system > was not closed cleanly and gives you some small number > of seconds to press the 'y' key to check the file system. > If you do not press the 'y' key in that interval, the > potentially corrupted file system is mounted. Why is > this default instead of the other way around? This is done for the ext3 journaling filesystem. Assuming there is no problem with the journaling software, there really should not be a need to do an fsck ever; the "press 'y' to check" is just an extra check in case of a really unexpected problem. If you are running ext2, you'll get a forced fsck with no choice. -- Chris Adams <cmadams@xxxxxxxxxx> Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
