fsck in root partition

P Jones deerfieldtech at gmail.com
Sat Jul 23 01:26:36 UTC 2005


On 7/22/05, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs at math.uh.edu> wrote:
> >>>>> "PJ" == P Jones <P> writes:
> 
> PJ> Has anyone noticed that FC4 won't run fsck automatically at boot
> PJ> even if you do a hard reset in the middle of copying a file?
> 
> Why should it?  The whole point of a journalled filesystem is that an
> fsck run isn't required, even in the case you mention.
> 
> Of course, if you really want fsck to be run, you can force it by
> pressing "y" when prompted during boot.
> 

That's my point, I haven't ever been promtped by FC4 to run fsck
during boot. The behavior seems to have changed since FC3.  Hasn't it?

-P




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