--- On Fri, 9/10/10, Hal Duston wrote:
...
thread do not
run "fsck -y".
That is just flat out dangerous, and could
really
screw up your fs.
Seriously, why did they ever add that
option?
...
Something to do with not wanting to press "y"
10,000 times,
I expect.
Lol, well if you have 10,000 multiply linked inodes,
your time would
be better used in running fdisk rather than fsck. It
was my impression
the original poster only had a few multiply linked
inodes.
...
So, if your find yourself at the point of pressing 'y' thousands of times and don't have a the budget to hire an expert to carefully research out the proper response to each of the questions nor the knowledge to do the research yourself, and don't have a backup of your data; you would be better served by packing up your system, returning it to the place of purchase and going back to using a pencil, pen or at the most a Smith-Corona as you are clearly to stupid to own a computer.
I wouldn't necessarily say that. If your system is so messed up the you have thousands of multiply linked errors, it's clearly a sign of something seriously wrong. Considering the filesystem is the lifeblood of any system, it would be wise to get someone who is experienced with filesystems to help, when a serious issue like that crop up.
I fiddle with my own car, but wouldn't begin to try to rebuild/repair the engine myself, even though I know what all the major parts are and where they go.
Just because an option exists for a program doesn't mean it's a good idea to use it, without knowing what you're doing. But, quite a few listers think it's fine. I don't.
But, I guess, I did make some statements that were taken more seriously than they were meant to be.
If I had a system reporting thousands of fs errors, I'd dd it to another device, wipe the drive/partition, do some serious forensics on the device, (buy a new drive,) and try to retrieve any salvageable files from the (too little too late backup). The "y" option might be fine 9 times out of 10 or 999:1000, but what about that other time? I guess it really all depends on how important your files are to you. Although, if you know what you're doing the "y" option is ok. I don't see much purpose to it, in most cases. There are safer less destructive alternatives.
But then, if the files were important you backed them up right? Although, that's not always a fix either. Several years back, my production disk died, suddenly without warning. Then my alternate died within a few days, and my secondary backup right after. I failed to make a new backup after the first crash. By the second crash it was too late. Then my final DVD back up was unreadable. All I had left were very old backups and partials. Months of important stuff gone.
Jack