On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 08:44:41AM -0600, STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT) wrote: > 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? You're using ext3, a journalling filesystem and the default in Fedora and all recent versions of RHL. Playing back the journal will put the filesystem into perfect shape (and if there's a problem doing that, it'll automatically drop to fsck). The option to run fsck by pressing 'y' is there for paranoia. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
