On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 2:21 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> wrote: >> > The reason it is not the default in CentOS is because it is not the > default in RHEL. > > As to why it is not the default in RHEL, I can't say for sure ... BUT > ... -y (auto answer yes) is more dangerous that -p (preen). The > definition of preen is "to automatically fix any filesystem problems > that can be safely fixed without human intervention". When you do -y > instead, it answers yes to everything ... including things that can't be > fixed "without human intervention". That is not necessarily the safest > thing to do. If you choose to do this, make sure you have good backups :D > I do sort-of understand the difference between the -p and -y - and the CentOS position on the subject. But seriously, how many people are going to be able to recover a filesystem better than fsck? And you need the backups anyway - the disk might really be dead. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com