On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:30:20AM -0500, Mike Kercher enlightened us:
If a problem is encountered during the fsck, will the system automagically fix it?
By default, it doesn't appear to. However, it does get additional options from the /fsckoptions file, so you could give it the -p there to automatically fix problems. That can be dangerous, though...I've had entire filesystems end up in lost+found doing that :-)
Matt