On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 22:27, Kirk Bocek wrote: > Steve Bergman wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 11:14 +0800, Feizhou wrote: > > > >>> I Imagine he holds the 'Y' key down, too, or has a patch to do it for > >>> him.. > >> nah, fsck -y > > > > No. That still bails you out and asks you to run it without -a or -y. > > > > You can, however, put a matchstick between the 'Y' and the 'T' in such a > > way that you can fix dinner while it's running. ;-) > > I just ran 'fsck -fvy' with no complaints. That works if there is not much damage. If the machine was busy when it crashed there's a fair chance that it will refuse to run with the -y, which is no fun when you really need the machine to restart itself when power is restored. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com