Les Mikesell wrote: > 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. > How serious a level of damage before it refuses -y? I cannot remember any time that I have not been able to do -y and there have been times when I saw a huge amount of errors being automatically fixed.