On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 22:56, 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? Just guessing, but probably anytime 2 or more concurrent writes had allocated space but not completed the updates. > 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. With ext2 my odds were at least one out of 10 that a busy machine wouldn't come back up automatically after a power glitch. Ext3 is much better because it normally just uses the journal to recover. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com