[CentOS] Calling All FS Fanatics

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 17:47 -0500, Steve Bergman wrote:

> > It's been awhile since I had to sit through one of those boot time
> > fsck's, but now that you guys remind me of them I remember why I'm using
> > ext3.
> > 
> 
> By default, you still have to with ext3.  Just not as often. Every 21
> mounts or whatever, or 180 days or whatever.

> A wise default, I will agree.  I just wish it came with a message that
> said "DON'T PANIC!" in nice friendly letters, so that my clients didn't
> *freak* when they saw all the warning nessages.  I also wish that it
> would default to doing its *damnedest* to fix the problems rather than
> dumping them at a cold and lonely # prompt and leaving them with a
> "broken" system.
> 
> If I want it to be conservative about fixing stuff, by God, I can tell
> it to dump me at a command prompt.

Exactly.  What are the odds that the person answering the prompts
knows more than fsck about how to fix filesystems?

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  Les Mikesell
   lesmikesell at gmail.com