Take the S/Ns and run them over by Cisco. On 3/4/10, gordon b slater <gordsla...@ieee.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 16:46 -0700, Brielle Bruns wrote: > >> fsck is not just for failing hard drives. fsck is used any time you >> want to check a disk (may it be ssd, optical, magnetic) for any kind of >> errors or inconsistencies. It's a standard part of any UNIX toolkit. >> >> On Linux systems with ext2/3, you'll see lost+found, which is where >> stuff ends up if it can't be connected to an actual file entry. Sounds >> exactly like what those FSCK files are - DOS used to do this with >> scandisk. >> > > beat me to it by a minute or two :) > > I'd guess (from a *nix-yness background) that the appliance is set up to > automatically fsck a disk if it's dirty - `dirtiness` can be caused by > thing like unexpected power cut as well as nasty things like hardware > troubles. Appliances are prone to "power pulls" as they are usually > headless. > Some "diskless" appliances don't even bother to check , somewhat > dismayingly. > > Not sure what the exact fs is on those boxes - anyone happen to know? - > but from experience, I wouldn't be worrying too much (though I'd be very > curious of course). > > Gord > > -- > snort, snort, oink, oink > > > > >
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