I can't claim to be 20 years in, but when we boot into rescue mode and run fsck manually we only ever supply -y. All repairs are done and, as you say, we worry about the consequences later.
-Mathew "When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all." - God; Futurama "We'll get along much better once you accept that you're wrong and neither am I." - Me On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:22 AM, Jonathan <lo...@redigloo.org> wrote: > > On 31/10/13 01:51, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > >> >> hhmmm... >> >> In my 20 years "fsck -y" was always "answer yes to all questions." >> >> Agreed. -p (preen) was do any safe fixes (like assigning unowned disk > blocks to the free list) and -y (yes) was answer yes to all questions and > worry about the consequences later (like a disk block being owned by > multiple files). > > But some of us remember Sixth Edition Unix, with icheck, ncheck and > dcheck, along with 14-character file names :) > > -- > Jonathan > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Tech mailing list > Tech@lists.lopsa.org > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-**bin/mailman/listinfo/tech<https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech> > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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