It should also be noted that fsck should not be run on
rw (read/write) mounted filesystems (which could easily
trip up a newbie). Also from the man page:
-y Assume an answer of `yes' to all questions; allows
e2fsck to be used non-interactively
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003, Mike Gorse wrote:
> I've had the automatic fsck fail on me before, and my
> distro would get into an infinite cycle of rebooting,
> so I'd wind up specifying something like
> "init=/bin/sh" as a parameter to the kernel and
> manually running /sbin/e2fsck (this is back when I
> was running ext2 -- Luke is right in that having a
> journaling fs helps) and hitting y a few times when
> it stopped until I could determine that it was done
> (if I hit backspace and get a beep, then I can tell
> I'm at a prompt of some kind).
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