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? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com